COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
75-199
Record number:
75-199-5
JCB call number:
D833 L155p / 3-SIZE
Image title:
Interior of a boiling house
Creator 1:
William Clark
Place image published:
London
Image publisher:
Infant School Society Depository
Image date:
[1833]
Image function:
plate 5
Technique:
lithograph, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
23 cm.
Image dimension width:
34.4 cm.
Page dimension height:
27.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
39.4 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Enslaved Black people boil the cane juice over fires to refine the sugar. Men skim the coppers and place scum in a trough at the front of the boilers. The clarified sugar is piped across the room to evaporation vats. Steam rises through vents in the ceiling. A man with a scale talks to the plantation manager.
Source creator:
Ladies' society for promoting the early education of negro children.
Source Title:
[Views of sugar production on Antigua]
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for Edward Suter
Source date:
[1833?]
notes:
Taken from William Clark's Ten views of the island of Antigua, London, 1823, six of the original images were used to compile this work for the Ladies's society. The images are accompanied by a large-print narrative describing each image, intended to be read by a class of beginning readers. Clark identifies this boiling house as being on Delap's estate.
Time Period:
1801-1850
References:
Clark, W. Ten views of the island of Antigua, No. 6
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1975.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Slavery--Caribbean area
Subject headings:
Sugar--Manufacture and refining--Caribbean area
Interior of a boiling house
