Planting the sugar cane, Negroes digging holes with a hoe, and placing the plants in the holes. Image taken from West India Scenery, with illustration

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Planting the sugar cane, Negroes digging holes with a hoe, and placing the plants in the holes. Image taken from West India Scenery, with illustrations of negro character, the process of making sugar, &c, from sketches taken during a voyage to, and residence of seven years in, the island of Trinidad. Plates, with accompanying Originally published in R. Jennings & Co.: London, 1836?. Author Richard Bridgens, Illustrated by Richard Bridgens.

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