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Table of costs for an estate on Barbados
Description:
Table of costs for an estate on the island of Barbados, 1822, showing output of sugar, input of labour and costs of slave labour.
Taken from The nature and Properties of the Sugar Cane with practical directions for the improvement of its culture, page 326. By George Richardson Porter, published by Smith, Elder and Co, London 1830.
Date: 1822
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Object ID:BLS 633-61-9a
Costs for an estate on Tortola
Description:
Table of costs for an estate in 1823, on the island of Tortola (off the Caribbean island of Nevis).
Taken from The nature and Properties of the Sugar Cane with practical directions for the improvement of its culture . By George Richardson Porter, published by Smith, Elder and Co, London 1830.
Date: 1830
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Object ID:BLS 633-61-8
Sugar mill worked by steampower
Description:
Diagram of a sugar mill worked by steampower.
Taken from The nature and Properties of the Sugar Cane with practical directions for the improvement of its culture . By George Richardson Porter, published by Smith, Elder and Co, London 1830.
Date: 1830
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Object ID:BLS 633-61-6
Still for producing rum
Description:
Diagram of still for producing rum from sugar processing waste.
Taken from The nature and Properties of the Sugar Cane with practical directions for the improvement of its culture . By George Richardson Porter, published by Smith, Elder and Co, London 1830.
Date: 1830
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Object ID:BLS 633-61-7
Diagram of horizontal sugar mill
Description:
Diagram of horizontal sugar mill, worked by cattle , shown front and side view. A slave is feeding sugar canes into the rollers.
Taken from The nature and Properties of the Sugar Cane with practical directions for the improvement of its culture . By George Richardson Porter, published by Smith, Elder and Co, London 1830.
Date: 1830
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Object ID:BLS 633-61-5
Plan of a boiling house
Description:
Plan of a boiling house.
Taken from The nature and Properties of the Sugar Cane with practical directions for the improvement of its culture . By George Richardson Porter, published by Smith, Elder and Co, London 1830.
Date: 1830
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Object ID:BLS 633-61-4
Figures regarding making saturated sugar
Description:
Table of the quantity of sugar in 100 lbs of juice and the amount of water that must be evaporated to make a saturated sugar.
Taken from The nature and Properties of the Sugar Cane with practical directions for the improvement of its culture . By George Richardson Porter, published by Smith, Elder and Co, London 1830.
Date: 1830
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Object ID:BLS 633-61-2
Cocoa crop, Trinidad
Description:
Cacao (cocoa) crop, Trinidad. Harvested pods are opened and the beans removed for drying.
Taken from Food of the Gods by Brandon Head. Published by R Brimley Johnson, London 1903.
Cocoa, which was used to make chocolate, was grown on slave planations in the Caribbean and brought to Bristol for processing.
Chocolate was first used as a drink, sweetened with sugar to mask the bitter flavour of the chocolate. Later it was used for making eating chocolate. At this period, most people drank beer, wine or spirits. Water was not safe to drink, tea coffee and chocolate were expensive. Quakers promoted drinking chocolate as an alternative to alcohol.
Date: 1903
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Object ID:BLS 633-74-b1
Parts and growth of sugar cane
Description:
Plate showing various parts of sugar cane, Saccharum officinarium, stages of growth.
Taken from The nature and Properties of the Sugar Cane with practical directions for the improvement of its culture . By George Richardson Porter, published by Smith, Elder and Co, London 1830.
Date: 1830
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Object ID:BLS 633-61-1
Cocoa pods on tree
Description:
Cacao (Cocoa) pods on tree.
Taken from Food of the Gods by Brandon Head. Published by R Brimley Johnson, London 1903.
Cocoa, which was used to make chocolate, was grown on slave planations in the Caribbean and brought to Bristol for processing.
Chocolate was first used as a drink, sweetened with sugar to mask the bitter flavour of the chocolate. Later it was used for making eating chocolate. At this period, most people drank beer, wine or spirits. Water was not safe to drink, tea coffee and chocolate were expensive. Quakers promoted drinking chocolate as an alternative to alcohol.
Date: 1903
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Object ID:BLS 633-74-b2
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