Clearing Away the Weeds. 'Then we in gangs, like beasts in droves,/Swift to the cane fields driven are;/There first our toil the weeds remove,/And next we holes for plants prepare.' From Ameilia Opie "The Black Man's Lament; or How to Make Sugar", London, 1826.

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