Sugar plantation

Leaving Louisiana and its racial problems behind, Rillieux returned permanently to France around the time of the Civil War. Fearful of losing their federal subsidies, most Louisiana sugar planters initially opposed secession. Nonetheless, when their state seceded in January 1861, most supported the Confederacy. In the end, the war destroyed their sugar plantations and freed their slaves. According to some reports, Rillieux returned to France before the war, but his closest French associate wrote that Rillieux left the United States after the war, exhausted and asking for nothing but rest. ... 

Although gibberellins have been used on a small scale for over a decade in Hawaii (12,13), it was not until 1976 that one of the sugar plantations on the island of Oahu utilized gibberellins on a large commercial scale and also studies the interaction with ripeners. The test results show that treatments of split applications of gibberellins in combination with a chemical ripener gave the best response. 

Ilex paraguayensis (mate) (Aquifoliaceae), Coffea arabica, Coffea spp. (coffee) (Rubiaceae) [coffee bean], Paullinia cupana (guarana) (Sapindaceae), Cola acuminata (cola) (Sterculiaceae) [seed], Camellia sinensis (tea) (Theaceae) [leaf] African slave labour especially for Brazil coffee plantations plus cotton, sugar plantations in the Americas - about 13 million kidnapped transported to the Americas... 

All aboard for sweet views of St. Kitts sugar plantations and village life. 

All aboard the St. Kitts Scenic Railroad, which loops around the coastline and through the island s sugar plantations. En route, you ll pass villages with papaya stands and pineapple plantings, and enjoy the melodies of the on-board choir. (See Day Trip, page 28.)... 

A man of this name was buried in 1962 and someone claiming to be him emerged 18 years later, saying that he had been disinterred alive and spent the interv ening time as a slave on a sugar plantation. 

Fig. S-40, Sugar plantation in Brazil. (Courtesy, Fielid Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 111.)...

G.A. Hagemann was, as also mentioned, active in soda ash and bromine production (in the USA) and sugar production, both in Denmark and in the Danish West Indies, where he also owned sugar plantations. He acquired considerable wealth and had numerous directorships in private companies and public institutions, and was director of the Polytechnical College in 1902-12. 

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