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barefootliambarefootliam@floss.social
2025-07-27

fromoldbooks.org/Ridpath-Great

Chaldean Slaves (1893)

We don’t really know exactly where Chaldea was, still less how they or their slaves dressed, and the text accompanying this illustration in Redpath’s book was not relevant to it. I doubt we know whether female slaves did this work of grinding wheat or other grains to make flour or meal.

But it’s an illustration of slave labour.

#vintageArt #fobo #slaveLabour #labor #slavery #women #whip #engraving #johnClarkRidpath

Two women are working together to tun a grind-stone to make flour or meal; there’s a pile of it on a cloth on the right-hand edge of the picture. The slaves have bear arms and feet but are otherwise clothed. Another woman approaches, an anklet or shackle around her right leg, carrying a sack presumably of grain for the kneeling slaves to grind. An overseer stands behind them holding a whip.

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