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Producing indigo dye with slave labour: West Indies or Central America, 1725. Artist: Anon
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Title:
Producing indigo dye with slave labour: West Indies or Central America, 1725. Artist: Anon
Caption:
Producing indigo dye with slave labour: West Indies or Central America, 1725. Indigo tinctoria is cut, tied in bundles, steeped in water and fermented in the centre tank. The liquor is drawn off into the bottom tank where it is agitated. The indigo separates out and is allowed to settle and the tank is drained. The residue is removed and put in cases to dry, left. From A Compleat History of Drugs by P Pomet, (London, 1725). First published in French (Paris, 1725).
Credit:
Album / Oxford Science Archive / Heritage Images
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Image size:
3936 x 2659 px | 29.9 MB
Print size:
33.3 x 22.5 cm | 13.1 x 8.9 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
18TH CENTURY • 18TH CENTURY, THE • 18TH • AFRICA • AFRICAN CONTINENT • AFRICAN • AGRICULTURE • ANON • ANONYMOUS • BLACK & WHITE • BLACK AND WHITE • BLACK • CACTI • CACTUS • CENTRAL AMERICA • CENTURY • COLOR • COLOUR • CONTINENT • DYE WORKS • DYE • DYEING • EIGHTEENTH CENTURY • ENGRAVING • EUROPE • EUROPEA • EUROPEAN • FOREMAN • GUARD • INDIES • INDIGO TINCTORIA • INDIGO • JOB • LOCATION • MONOCHROMATIC • MONOCHROME • NATURE • NEW WORLD • OCCUPATION • OVERSEER • PEOPLE • PLANT • PLANTATION • PROFESSION • SENTINEL • SLAVE • SLAVERY • TANK • WARDER • WATCHMAN • WEST INDIES • WILDERNESS
