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| Keywords: Moreau Sucre.jpg This engraving is from Voltaire's Candide it depicts the scene where Candide and Cacambo meet a maimed slave of a sugar mill near Surinam Its caption reads in English It is at this price that you eat sugar in Europe ; this line was said by the slave in the text The negro has had his hand cut off for getting a finger stuck in a millstone and his leg removed for trying to run away This version is from cite journal Bellhouse Mary L Candide Shoots the Monkey Lovers Representing Black Men in Eighteenth-Century French Visual Culture Political Theory 34 6 2006-12 Sage Publications 758 DOI 10 1177/0090591706293020 The original is from the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris 1787 Creator Jean-Michel Moreau other versions 100px PD-old-100 Jean-Michel Moreau Candide | ||||
