Engraving showing enslaved Africans harvesting sugar cane ... in the fields at the plantations. Even after the end of slavery, the economic opportunities for black Caribbean people remained ...

An illustration of enslaved Africans working to harvest sugar cane on a plantation. This source of enforced labour underpinned the wealth generated by the Caribbean plantations. British slave ...

slavery in the West Indies started in the 1640s on the twin islands of St. Kitts and Nevis. European settlers discovered early on that sugar cane crops thrived in the lush, tropical islands in the ...

Rum sales in the UK recently topped £1bn ($1.3bn) for the first time but rum's legacy lies in the 17th Century sugar plantations in the Caribbean ... waste on brutal slave-operated farms which ...