After the Civil War, Texas passed laws and found loopholes that forced convict laborers to work on plantations. In 2018, 95 bodies were found from ages 14 to 70.

For centuries, Cuba was one of the world’s great sugar producers, with a long history of enslavement and exploitation of ...

When Fiji de-criminalized the desertion of indenture contracts in 1916, it is little wonder that hundreds of workers left the colony's sugar plantations. These included plantations operated by B.C ...

The agents spent days last March secretly interviewing Haitian cane cutters, who were shuttled to the hotel from Central Romana’s sprawling nearby 240,000-acre plantation, where many workers ...

Growing sugar was hard, labour-intensive work. Work gangs consisting of men, women and children worked under white overseers.Enslaved people worked from dawn until dusk. They were whipped for not ...

HONOKAA (HawaiiNewsNow) - There was a time “when sugar was king” in Honoka’a on Hawaii Island, and all life centered around the Hamakua Sugar Company and plantation life. “Every Christmas ...

These plantations produced 80–90 per cent of the sugar consumed in Western Europe. Almost every island was covered with sugar plantations and mills for refining the cane for its sweet properties.

Sep. 18—The remnants of a worker housing camp for the last sugar plantation to close on Oahu could become a new subdivision for primarily low-income households reflecting the character of the ...

Chemelil Sugar workers and Kenya Union of Sugar Plantation and Allied Workers, Chemelil Branch protest the leasing of the company to Kibos Sugar on April 29, 2025.

Jack Osida, Branch Secretary of the Kenya Union of Sugar Plantation and Allied Workers (Kuspawu Chemelil Branch), addresses media during a press conference at Chemelil Sugar Factory on April 29 ...