Pertinent Images and Maps for our discussion of Slavery in the Caribbean and Brazil

Davis offers a thorough description of the process of making sugar on Caribbean plantations, but does not include any images to illustrate that process. Luckily, our good Enlightenment friend Denis Diderot had the savvy to include a number of plates presenting the process of sugar manufacture in the entry for "Sucre" in the 1751 edition of the Encyclopédie.

Here are a few of those:

On the topic of how prominent the Caribbean and Brazil were in the overall dynamics of New World slavery, here's a map from the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database that visually indicates just how significant demographically those two regions were from the 16th through the 19th century.

There's one more map from Carla Pestana's book, The English Atlantic in the Age of Revolution, 1640-1661, that I'd hoped to include, but all my Google searches for it yield something along these lines:

So, when I get that map digitized, I'll pass it along, as it does a great job of illustrating one of Davis's points about the extent of English involvement with slavery outside North America in the mid-seventeenth century. Until then, I'll leave you with another relaxing beach scene: