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 ...

Members of the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative met with Prime ... including mills where enslaved individuals ground sugar cane to create cane syrup and other sugar products.

The island’s slaves also lived ... made to introduce the plantation system, and their work was not confined to the constant round of planting and reaping sugar-cane. “I hope and doubt not ...

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

In addition to its rum, the attraction also features a 350-year-old plantation home – one of ... and from January through May, sugar cane is ground in-house at the steam-operated syrup factory.

Army officials are considering changing the name of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, according to an NBC News report.

Freeman was awarded the APRA AMCOS Art Music Grant to research and develop The Girmit. The premiere was supported by and ...

Built during an era of Portuguese colonisation, when the islands were used as a base for trading slaves, ruins of sugar cane and cocoa plantations have since been swallowed by the voracious jungle.