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SUGAR IN THE EVERGLADES

 

photoBlack workers contributed to the farms' success. At first, African American seasonal laborers worked the fields. During World War II and until 1995, Blacks from the Bahamas and the Caribbean provided migrant labor.

This view: Bahamian worker, ca. 1943.

1993-171-9

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