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Field Negro, sugar cane in background
The field negro is represented with the implements employed in the cultivation of the sugar cane. The hoe is used to prepare the holes for the cane cuttings, and afterwards to remove the weeds which might injure the growth of the young plants. The…
Cutting canes
Weeding the young canes succeeds planting when the cane is about twenty inches in height. Cutting canes, in general, commences in January in which the Negro seizes the cane by the top and cuts off the upper joints to plant for the next crop; he then…
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Pinnacle, St. Catherine
Ruins of Leonard Howell's great house located at Pinnacle in the hills of St. Catherine. The Rastafarian community at Pinnacle was started by Leonard…