Slave labour on a sugar plantation in the West Indies, 1725. Artist: Unknown

Slave labour on a sugar plantation in the West Indies, 1725. Artist: Unknown

1-156-217 - Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images

Slave labour on a sugar plantation in the West Indies, 1725. Cane is cut and taken to vertical crushing mill powered by oxen. The juice extracted flows to boiling house where liquid is boiled and refined. From A Compleat History of Drugs by P Pomet. (London, 1725). First published in French (Paris, 1694).


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  1. Pierre Pomet: French: physician, doctor

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  1. 002112
  1. 002112
  1. 0460001741
  1. 1-156-217
  1. 1156217
  1. 1741

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