400 Years of Sweetness
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Sugar Plantations in Haiti in the 1700s
Natalie's specialty is Haiti in the 1700s. She says that sugar plantations on the island are where early forms of modern industrial agriculture were born. Sugar cane was planted, harvested and processed on these massive plantations; life for the enslaved was brutal. Part of the reason their life spans were so short was because of the hectic and frenetic pace of processing sugar cane into sugar.
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