ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to approach the introduction of indigo dye culture in the context of extraction commercial networks in the Atlantic Ocean. At first, based on a varied set of images, the architecture of the apparatuses and devices used in different parts of the coast of the American continent are approached. In a second moment, a case study is carried out on the introduction of this blue dye in the two extremes of the continent where this culture was prosperous: Charleston and Rio de Janeiro. Finally, it is concluded that technical procedures required practical knowledge of cultivation and processing, whose know-how was part of a set of useful colonial skills encouraged by European empires in the eighteenth century.
