After the cutters went on strike in 1887, the state militia and white vigilantes retaliated by killing about 60 suspected ...

It is an area where what is thought to be the largest slave rebellion in the U.S. took place. Former sugar cane plantations were places where people who were considered property themselves toiled ...

The typical books I read average about 300 pages. I’m not a speed reader. It takes me a day or two to read a book that long. That indicates I enjoyed it. If a book takes me longer to read I probably ...

Discipline was maintained by ‘slave drivers’ – enslaved workers ... enslaved workforce in the Caribbean was employed on sugar cane plantations. The reality of their working lives were ...

First, it reconstructs the individual lives and collective experiences of some 2,000 slaves on two large plantations—Mesopotamia sugar estate in western Jamaica ... 4 “Dreadful Idlers” in the ...

Sugar cane grows in warm climates ... because they were able to shift from the actual plantation economy … to financing the slave trade to financing other plantations. And eventually they ...