The Indigo Plant Farm
Title
The Indigo Plant Farm
Description
This print depicts and labels the essential components of a plantation producing indigo, a blue dye used for coloring cloth. Slaves are shown here working at different parts of the production process. In 1789, over 3,000 plantations in Saint Domingue produced indigo.
Creator
Jean-Baptiste du Tertre
Source
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Date
1667-1671
Rights
Public Domain
Relation
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/221/|Jean-Baptiste du Tertre, <em>Histoire générale des Antilles habitées par les Français</em>, vol. 2. (Paris: T. Lolly, 1667), 107.
Format
JPEG
Language
French
Identifier
221
Original Format
Illustration
Title (French)
Indigoterie
Citation
Jean-Baptiste du Tertre, “The Indigo Plant Farm,” LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION, accessed December 25, 2024, https://revolution.chnm.org/d/221.