11. Having killed nearly all of the native Taino Indians through slavery, maltreatment and disease, the Spaniards brought Africans to Puerto Rico to work on the sugar plantations. 12. He pointed out that some slave ships on the way to South Carolina stopped in the Caribbean to sell people to the sugar plantations of the islands. 13. He is sent away to live with his uncle on a sugar plantation on another island in the Seychelles, Mauritius. 14. He would tell tales about his family owning a sugar plantation in the Philippines or parking lots in San Diego. 15. Her grandfather immigrated from Korea, and her father managed a sugar plantation. 16. He still owns vast tracts of sugar plantations in the Malaysian state of Perlis. 17. He transformed the obscure colonial farming and mining company into a vast empire, Lonhro Group, which controlled automobile franchises, sugar plantations and oil pipelines across Africa. 18. His father, Demetrio Romero, grew up working on a sugar plantation in Puerto Rico, attending school only until the fourth grade. 19. In the sugar plantations surrounding Sertaozinho in this fertile region of southeastern Brazil, harvesting machines are fast replacing people. 20. It was an immediate success, quadrupling harvests and transforming the North Kohala sugar plantations into some of the most prosperous in Hawaii. |