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This 1820s sugar bowl describes its contents as "EAST INDIA SUGAR not made by SLAVES" The free-produce movement was an international boycott of goods produced by slave labor. It was used by the abolitionist movement as a non-violent way for individuals, including the disenfranchised, to fight slavery. [1]
Holing cane was a process by which slave labor gangs planted sugar cane on plantations.. Field slaves were generally divided into three gangs based on their ability to work. The lead gang was responsible for digging cane holes; the second gang would plant the cane cuttings, and the third gang—typically composed of the least able-bodied workers and the very young—would be required to weed ...
The Sugar Babies is a 2007 feature-length documentary film about exploitation in the sugar plantations of the Dominican Republic. The film, narrated by Edwidge Danticat , explores how the descendants of African slaves, are trafficked from Haiti to live and work in inhumane conditions akin to modern day slavery .
Sugar Cane Alley (French title: La Rue Cases-Nègres) is a 1983 film directed by Euzhan Palcy.It is set in Martinique in the 1930s, when black people working sugarcane fields were still treated harshly by their white employers.
The Thibodaux Massacre was an episode of white supremacist violence that occurred in Thibodaux, Louisiana on November 23, 1887. It followed a three-week strike during the critical harvest season in which an estimated 10,000 workers protested against the living and working conditions which existed on sugar cane plantations in four parishes: Lafourche, Terrebonne, St. Mary, and Assumption.
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Anna Duggar’s father told a Tarrant County congregation that “God made slavery illegal” after Black people “turned from their wicked ways.”
In 1795, Étienne de Boré had succeeded in granulating sugar and making sugar cane a profitable commodity. Aime inherited the family plantation in St. Charles Parish, and a fortune of $100,000 (~$2.73 million in 2023) in 1818; but he sold his portion of the plantation and bought several other plantations in St. James Parish , where he began ...