Windmill to extract sugar from cane on a slave plantation in the West Indies. Mill driven by wooden blades to turn cylinders below. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Migliavacca from Giulio Ferrrario's Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peoples (Il Costume Antico e Moderno di Tutti i Popoli), Florence, 1842.

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