1.   A disused sugar plantation is now the site of thriving communal maize plots.

2.   Sweetness and plight Slavery on sugar plantations is a thing of the past.

3.   The storm was the most powerful to hit Hawaii this century.

4.   It leveled sugar plantations and destroyed homes.

5.   Sadly, most never make it past the sorting stage and instead wind up as fire-lighters at a nearby sugar plantation.

6.   Ben Tyler, raised on a Cuban sugar plantation, became a Texas cowboy, and when hard times befell him, robbed banks.

7.   A deal is pending for the federal government to buy a sugar plantation in the Everglades as part of a conservation program.

8.   A publico van took us to Inn on the Blue Horizon, perched on spacious oceanfront land that was once a sugar plantation.

9.   Hajiro is from Waipahu, Hawaii, and went back to the islands to work on a sugar plantation after leaving the Army.