Indigo industry, Musee d'histoire de Nantes, Nantes, France
Indigo industry, including threshing and grinding of the pods and drying the leaves, engraving from the Art of the Indigotier, 1770, by Gauthier de Beauvais-Raseau, in the Musee d'histoire de Nantes, in the Chateau des ducs de Bretagne, in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Slaves worked the land and processed crops on large plantations, and illustrated manuals were published to inform settlers of working methods and profitable exploitation. The museum opened in 2007 and covers the history of Nantes, focusing on slavery, world wars, industrialisation and the chateau. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
13459035
Media ID
45381484
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6496px x 4699px
(10.8MB)
Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
