Ingenio Manaca
"Sugar Plantation Manaca" (caption translation). This image shows a central area or yard of a plantation with a steam factory, various outbuildings, and church or chapel. The accompanying text gives information on location, ownership, technical features of sugar production and similar data, and notes that as on other small and medium-sized plantations the enslaved are not housed in barracks but in individual houses. Their thatched houses are shown on the left. Justo German Cantero (1815-1871) was born in Trinidad, Cuba. The image shown here is from the 1984 reprint which only reproduces, on a smaller scale, 13 of the 28 colored lithographs found in the original 1857 edition. Images in the latter can be viewed on the British Library website, Images Online.
Image Title
Ingenio Manaca
RegID
SI-OB-450
Date
1857
Title
Ingenio Manaca
Source
Justo German Cantero, Los ingenios: Colección de vistas de los principales ingenios de azucar de la Isla de Cuba (Havana, 1857); reprinted Barcelona, 1984, edited by Levi Marrero.
Language
Spanish
Item sets
Plantation Scenes, Slave Settlements & Houses
Spatial Coverage
Caribbean--Cuba
Reproduced In
Justo German Cantero, Los ingenios: coleccion de vistas de los principales ingenios de azucar de la Isla de Cuba (Havana, 1857); reprinted Barcelona, 1984, edited by Levi Marrero.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
Cantero6