Légende

Dutch map of Brazil, with view of a sugar plantation, c1720. 'Praefectura Paranambucae Pars Borealis, una cum Praefectura de Itamaraca' (Prefecture of Paranambuca [ie Pernambuco], Northern Part, together with the Prefecture of Itamaraca). Sugar cane is harvested and brought to the mill by enslaved people, who feed it into the press which is driven by water power. This was back-breaking and dangerous work. Whites can be seen in the house to the left of the sugar mill. At bottom right is a fleet of ships on fire.

Date

1720

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A15_397

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

51,5Mo (3,0Mo) / 41,0cm x 31,5cm / 4843 x 3715 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation nature Europe Africa Brazil South America water building buildings agriculture people black library job farming house houses plant plants arts map industry manufacturing sugar danger water power art trade dangerous ship ships occupation island burning continent Netherlands Dutch color African industrial machine machinery cart settlement plantation location oven century Colonial pressing profession ovens print labourer labourers concept sugar cane processing pernambuco controversy furnace British Library slavery africans controversial engraved engraving sailing ship sailing ships slave slaves furnaces peril road Transport Colour water transport sugarcane farm hand farmhand farm hands farmhands farm worker farm workers on fire 18th century Eighteenth Century farmworker farmworkers water wheel waterwheel ox cart agricultural worker bullock cart colonialism colonisation farm labourer mechanisation navvy Nordeste sugar industry sugar plantation TGN cane cutter engraving map Unknown Heritage Art agricultural workers farm labourers enslaved person enslaved people Low Countries agricultural labourer Ilha de Itamaraca Itamaraca Itamaracá