Monday, October 14, 2013

Sugar Mills on Sugar Plantations


A wonderful wind mill sugar mill!  Other ways to power the rollers which pressed the sugar cane included slave labor, water wheels and farm animals.  Close-ups of mills from 1665 to 1835... 


Windmill 1823


Slaves working a portable mill  1834

Water 1762

Waterwheel 1816

Oxen driven 1665

Oxen 1798

Horse 1762

Horse 1835


For a previous posting on the sugar making process on plantations click HERE

Images are from Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record HERE
The link no longer works. Here is another Virginia Collection of images HERE

©2013 Patricia Bixler Reber

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