41.   Most workers were unionized as the island moved from family-based farming to huge plantations, especially sugar plantations often controlled by U.S. firms.

42.   Nelson led forces that defended British interests in the Caribbean during the colonial heyday of sugar plantations and slavery.

43.   The former British colony is split almost evenly between descendants of indentured servants who were brought from India to work on sugar plantations and descendants of African slaves.

44.   The Indians were the descendants of sugar plantation workers brought to Fiji by the British in colonial days.

45.   The Indians are the descendants of indentured laborers imported by British colonizers last century to work on sugar plantations.

46.   The property also holds a relatively intact abandoned sugar plantation, including a sugar mill and slave quarters, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

47.   The planned one-day walkout paralyzed operations at eight state-run sugar plantations and repair work at four others run by the State Sugar Council.

48.   The property also holds a relatively intact sugar plantation, including a sugar mill and slave quarters, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

49.   The sugar plantations recruit workers from Haiti, which shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic and is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere.

50.   The van, which was carrying workers of a sugar plantation, took a wide turn on a corner before the collision Wednesday, Antara said.