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

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 ...

The Office of the Cane and Sugar Board (OCSB) has set an ambitious target to reduce the burning of sugar cane plantations prior to harvest by up to 90% during the current harvest season, with the aim ...

To commemorate the 1811 German Coast slave revolt, the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history, dozens of African Americans gathered at Woodland Plantation in Laplace on Saturday to preview an exhibit ...

Sugar cane is very bulky and therefore very difficult to transport over long distances. This meant that sugar was produced on each plantation by the slaves who had grown the crop in the first place.

In a harsh and unwelcoming world, there were few options for uneducated ex-slaves other than to remain on the plantations as “sharecroppers” – a system whereby a tenant farmed a portion of ...

FROME, Westmoreland — Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining Floyd Green is urging sugar cane growers to get back into farming. According to Green, investments by Pan-Caribbean Sugar ...

ABOUT the middle of the nineteenth century nine-tenths of the world's sugar was obtained from the sugar cane. At the close of the century the proportion had fallen to about one-half, and the ...

Sugar cane in a market. Photo: Public domain on Pixabay ... In general it is difficult for island sugar plantations to compete with manufacturers in Florida who have vast flat and highly mechanized ...