JBC Archive of Early American Images, accession number 05724, Sucrerie.
This images that I have chosen depicts the types of sugar productions. It has grinding mills with horses or donkeys taking them around. They evaporate the cane juice right there as well so they can ship from there as well. The workers are the ones of course getting all of the sugar canes together. This image dates back to 1686 and originates from the Caribbean islands.
This image really lays out a good picture of what these places looked like and how they were set up. You can see the fields in the far right and from there it goes to where the evaporate which can be seen near the bottom. What I’m guessing are the slave quarters are on the left as we can see some slaves near that. This is all set up to move very quick as this is money for these people and they need to get these products out fast.
As we learned about in class the life that these slaves lived was rough. Their life expectancy was very short around maybe 20-29 as they were work all day and being treated with no care. They were brought there for one thing and one thing only to work. The slaves of course are being put through hell as they are out there in the sun all day with very little if anything to wear. Everything being close together could seem to make things just a little easier but of course none of this is easy and it is hell on earth for these men. You can also see the workers beating on the slaves on the far of the imagine. This image gives us another insight into slavery and helps us understand what these men went through.