African enslaved people working in a sugar mill, 18th century. Men drive horses to turn the cylinders, and others load sugar cane, Saccharum officinarum, into the mill on a plantation in the West Indies. Handcolored copperplate engraving of an illustration from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte (Encyclopedia of Natural History), Vienna, 1816.

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