Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Black youths plant, cultivate, and harvest indigo.]
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Accession number:
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72-196
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Record number:
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72-196-23
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JCB call number:
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C798 V441f
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Image title:
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[Black youths plant, cultivate, and harvest indigo.]
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Creator 1:
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F.
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Creator 1 role:
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gr.
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Place image published:
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[Lisbon]
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Image publisher:
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[Royal Press]
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Image date:
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[1806]
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Image function:
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fold-out plate 9 [sic]; vol. 2, part 1, following p. [342]
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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21.6 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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15.2 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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24.9 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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20 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Description:
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[top] Enslaved Black youths or boys till the soil using a plow pulled by other Black people. Behind them girls plant seeds. [middle top] Black slaves excavate holes to plant seeds while others use hoes to cultivate the field. [middle bottom] Black men use hooks or knives to cut the indigo crop while others bundle the stalks and carry them away. [bottom] Various tools used in indigo production in the Americas, including hoes, knife or machete, rakes, cup or sieve, and shears.Items in the image are lettered and numbered for identification in preceding text.
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Source creator:
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Velloso, José Mariano da Conceiçao, 1742-1811
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Source Title:
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[Fazendeiro do Brazil] O fazendeiro do Brazil ... Tom. II. Parte I
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Source place of publication:
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Lisboa [Lisbon]
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Source publisher:
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Na Impressam Regia
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Source date:
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1806
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notes:
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The shears are noted to have been invented by Jean Barre de Saint-Venant [Saint Yanant], French agriculturalist and engineer at Cap Français in Saint Domingue (present-day Haiti). A noted botantist, Velloso was appointed director of the press, Arco do Cego, incorporated in 1798 into the royal printing office. Meant to modernize the Portuguese empire, the Arco do Cego published at least 80 works in three years on various topics, including agriculture, navigation, and medicine.
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Time Period:
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1801-1850
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1972.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Brazil
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject headings:
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Indigo industry
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Subject headings:
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Indigo--Brazil
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