"Refining sugar with human bones"

"Refining sugar with human bones"

This death penalty scene represents the height of horror in Cuba's sugar plantations, as a Chinese worker is literally and symbolically ground in with the processed sugarcane.

Anonymous author

The Illustrated Description of the Living Hells (Sheng diyu tushuo 生地獄圖說)

Society of Friends of the Cernuschi Museum

1875