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Title: Piantazione di zucchero
Description: Illustration of a Jamaica sugar plantation. Key indicates the location of the plantation owner's house, workers' houses, part of the savanna or pasture, sugar fields, the water mill, the sugar house, waste from the mill, the purgatory?, and the heater for drying cakes of sugar., Plate 12 in Il gazzettiere americano (In Livorno: Per Marco Coltellini all' inglese della verita, [1763]), vol 2, p. 110., Possibly based on an earlier plate published in Denis Diderot's Encyclopedie, ou, Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers (Paris, 1762)., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
Creator: Terreni, Giuseppe Maria, 1739-1811, engraver
Date: [1763]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1763 Ameri Gaz Log 2080.F v 2 p 110, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2676

Title: Fabrica del Tabacco
Description: Shows four slaves at work in a tobacco house. In the lower left-hand corner, a female slave sits on the ground and strips (?) the tobacco leaves (1). Behind her, another slave twists tobacco (2), while a third slave (3) puts it on a roll. Drying tobacco leaves hang upside down from the rafters (4). In the background, a mother and child work hanging leaves. A version of this engraving (a closely related mirror image) appears in Jean Baptiste Laban's Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amerique (A Paris: rue S. Jacques, chez Pierre-François Giffart, près la rue Mathurins, à l'image Sainte Therese, M.DCC.XXII [1722]), vol. 4, p. 496., Plate 21 in Il gazzettiere americano (In Livorno: Per Marco Coltellini all' inglese della verita, [1763]), vol 3, p. 202., Key at the top reads: 1. Nero che leva le Costole al Tabacco; 2. Nero che torce il Tabacco; 3. Nero che arrotola il Tabacco ; 4. Tabacco sospese per aseiugarsi., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
Creator: Gregori, Ant, engraver
Date: [1763]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1763 Ameri Gaz Log 2080.F v 3 p 202., https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2677

Title: Oeconomie rustique, culture et arsonnage du coton
Description: Engraving shows a cotton plantation in the West Indies. The plantation is situated near the coast, and three ships (presumably trading vessels) are visible in the background. In the right foreground, a slave picks cotton from a plant and places it in a basket. Behind him, another slave carefully cleans the picked cotton. At the far left, a female slave operates an early cotton gin, and two men pack large sacks of finished cotton. Two full sacks of cotton occupy the left foreground; one bears the label "7 No. 120 / P.R.M.", Upper portion of an engraving published in the first volume of Denis Diderot's Encyclopedie, ou, Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers (A Paris: Chez Briasson, rue Saint Jacques, à la Science; chez David, rue & vis-à-vis la Grille des Mathurins; chez Le Breton, imprimeur ordinaire du Roy, rue de la Harpe; chez Durand, rue du Roin, vis-à-vis la petite Porte des Mathurins, 1762), n.p., Prevost's engraving reappeared as a lithograph in the Report on the Agriculture and Geology of Mississippi (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co. for E. Barksdale, State Printer, 1854), plate VIII, p. 140., Key to the illustration is printed at the beginning of Diderot's text (p. 9) It reads as follows: "Fig. I. Une habitation des Isles de l'Amérique où l'on cultive le coton. No. 1, cotonier dans toute sa grandeur, arbuste portant le coton. 2, negre qui cueille le coton. 3, negre qui épulche le coton. 4, négresse qui passe le coton au moulin, pour en separer la graine. 5, negre qui emballe le coton en le foulant des piés, & se servant d'une pince de fer pour le même effet. 6, autre negre qui de tems en tems mouille la balle extérieurement en jettant de l'eau avec les mains pour faire resserrer la toile qui hape mieux le coton & l'empêche de gonsler & de remonter vers l'orifice de la balle. 7, balles de coton prêtes à être livrées à l'achteur. 8, petits bâtimens caboteurs qui viennent charger du coton sur la côte. 9, partie d'une plantation de cotoniers. 10, case à coton, & engard sous lequel se rangent les négresses qui passent le coton au moulin.", Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
Creator: Prevost, engraver
Date: [1762]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Is Dide Log 1998.F n.p., https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2845

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