Almost every island was covered with sugar plantations and mills for refining the cane for its sweet properties. Until the abolition of slavery, the main source of labour was enslaved African people.

The service can be for a range of reasons, including picking cotton and cutting sugar cane as seen hundreds of years ago. Both historic and present slavery cause significant physical and ...

Sugar cane grows in warm climates ... women and children were captured in Africa and transported by European slave ships to the Americas. This dark 400-year period became known as the Atlantic ...

owned sugar cane plantations in Grenada and about 1,000 enslaved people. They spoke at a meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York this past week where, for the first time, descendants of slave ...

The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica and Guyana.

Marion Healy’s great-grandfather Kwailu was just a boy when “recruiters” took him aboard a ship on a beach in the Solomon Islands. The destination was ...

A MYSTERY local developer is set to buy Greenock's historic sugar sheds. The Tele can reveal that talks are at an advanced stage to takeover the cavernous A-listed warehousing complex from current ...