The Indigo Plant Farm Still Image

Engraving of a colonial indigo plantation showing enslaved laborers processing plants at labeled vats and basins, with surrounding tropical vegetation, huts, and hills in the background.

Dublin Core

Title

The Indigo Plant Farm

Description

This print depicts and labels the essential components of a plantation producing indigo, a blue dye used for coloring cloth. Slaves are shown here working at different parts of the production process. In 1789, over 3,000 plantations in Saint Domingue produced indigo.

Creator

Jean-Baptiste du Tertre

Source

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Date

1667-1671

Rights

Public Domain

Relation

http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/221/|Jean-Baptiste du Tertre, Histoire générale des Antilles habitées par les Français, vol. 2. (Paris: T. Lolly, 1667), 107.

Format

JPEG

Language

French

Identifier

221

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Illustration

Title (French)

Indigoterie

Citation

Jean-Baptiste du Tertre, “The Indigo Plant Farm,” LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION, accessed November 9, 2026, https://revolution.chnm.org/d/221.