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The Indigo Plant Farm

The Indigo Plant Farm

Annotation

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.

Credits

Jean-Baptiste du Tertre, Histoire générale des Antilles habitées par les Français, vol. 2. (Paris: T. Lolly, 1667), 107.

How to Cite This Source

"The Indigo Plant Farm," in World History Commons, https://worldhistorycommons.org/indigo-plant-farm [accessed December 8, 2024]