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  • Sugar: a plantation of sugar cane in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and processing equipment in the foreground. Engraving, 1683, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671.
  • Sugar: a plantation of sugar cane in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and processing equipment in the foreground. Engraving, 1683, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671.
  • Jamaica: a sugar plantation. Coloured aquatint by P. Fumagalli, ca. 1821.
  • Sugar: a plantation of sugar cane in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and processing equipment in the foreground. Engraving, 1683, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671.
  • Natal, South Africa: workers cutting sugar cane on a plantation. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.

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    Sugar: a plantation of sugar cane in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and processing equipment in the foreground. Engraving, 1683, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671.

    Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714. | Date: [1683] | Reference: 45428i
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    Natal, South Africa: workers cutting sugar cane on a plantation. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.

    Harris, Robert, active 1881-1888. | Date: 1888 | Reference: 533198i
    Part of: South Africa illustrated by a series of one hundred and four permanent photographs.
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    Jamaica: a sugar plantation. Coloured aquatint by P. Fumagalli, ca. 1821.

    | Date: [1821] | Reference: 2498733i
    • Books

    Sugar : a bittersweet history / Elizabeth Abbott.

    Abbott, Elizabeth, 1953- | Date: 2009, ©2008

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