African enslaved people working in a sugar mill

African enslaved people working in a sugar mill, 18th century. Men drive horses to turn the cylinders, and others load sugar cane, Saccharum officinarum, into the mill on a plantation in the West Indies. Handcolored copperplate engraving of an illustration from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte (Encyclopedia of Natural History), Vienna, 1816

18th Century 19th Century Botanical Art Cylinders Edible Encyclopedia Of Natural History Enslaved People Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm Plantation Pomology Slave Owner Slave Trade Slaves Unterhaltungen Aus Der Naturgeschichte Useful Plants West Indies

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