Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Nigritae exhaustis venis metallicis consiciendo saccharo operam dare debent.

Accession number: 
34724
Record number: 
34724-3
JCB call number: 
J590 B915v GVL5.1 / 2-SIZE
Image title: 
Nigritae exhaustis venis metallicis consiciendo saccharo operam dare debent.
Place image published: 
[Frankfurt am Main]
Image publisher: 
[Theodor de Bry]
Image date: 
[1595]
Image function: 
illustration; Plate 2
Technique: 
engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height: 
15.7 cm.
Image dimension width: 
19.4 cm.
Page dimension height: 
34.5 cm.
Page dimension width: 
23.5 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink, colors
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
Slaves process sugar cane and make sugar. Built environment includes grinding mill driven by men in an open-sided dwelling, a water wheel in distance. Workers gather sugar cane in fields. Cane juice is boiled in a vessel and ladled into others.
Source Title: 
[America. Pt 5. Latin] Americae pars quinta nobilis & admiratione plena Hieronymi Bezoni Mediolanensis secundae setionis Hispanorum ...
Source place of publication: 
Franc. [Frankfurt am Main]
Source publisher: 
Theodoro de Bry
Source date: 
M D XCV. [1595]
notes: 
This image is one of the earliest depictions of slavery in the New World. This work was published by Theodor de Bry and is derived from the second part of Girolamo Benzoni, Historia del mondo nuovo, Venice, 1565. Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 5. Latin. Imprint information from colophon.
Time Period: 
1492-1600
References: 
Church, E.D. Discovery, 156
References exhibitions: 
Cf. Danforth, S. Encountering the New World, Fig. 41
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1865.
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