Insight: Slavery in Brazil's ethanol sector blights drive for cleaner fuel

When manual laborer Alison Moreira dos Santos moved across Brazil for a job on a sugarcane plantation in the southeastern ...
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Reconstructing the landscapes of slavery a visual history of the plantation in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world Dale W. Tomich, Rafael de Bivar Marquese, Reinaldo Funes ...

Introduction : cotton, sugar, coffee, and the making of nineteenth-century slave plantations -- Part i. Making landscapes : new Atlantic commodity frontiers -- The lower Mississippi Valley cotton ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How ‘Blackbirders’ Forced Tens of Thousands of Pacific Islanders Into Slavery After the Civil War

Estimates of the number of Pacific Islanders captured by blackbirders and forced to work on cotton and sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia range from 61,610 to more than 100,000. Public domain via ...
The Conversation

Tracing the Drax family’s millions – a story of British landed gentry, slavery and sugar plantations

Paul Lashmar is affiliated with the Labour Party. Rich British aristocratic families with a legacy of owning colonial slave plantations are often accused by campaigners that their wealth solely ...