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The interior of a sugar factory

"In the 18th century, sugar was sold as a big cone called a 'sugar-loaf'. Sugar nippers were used in the home for breaking chunks off sugar-loaves for use."

A rusty zinc building on a sugar warehouse in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland.

"Sugar workers wanted now: Venezuela representative Sr. Rafael Enrique Ayala (left) and Labour Minister William Isaacs discussing the need to send a first batch of Jamaican canecutters to Venezuela almost immediately. The Venezuelan representative,…

A colour photograph of sugarcane being reaped, bundled and loaded unto a cart by enslaved Africans

"Gazon and George Campbell in an intimate scene from Summer Dread by Slade Hopkinson, which will be presented by the NFT of Jamaica at the Garden Theatre, Jamaica House, starting on March 12, at 8pm."

"Munair Zacca [centre] plays a revolutionary in "Summer Dread" by Slade Hopkinson. Also in the play are Doreen White [left] and Keith Noel."

"Ruel Cooke and Munair Zacca in a scene from "Summer Dread" by Slade Hopkinson."

Scene from Summer Dread.