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How the Plantation System Survived a Blockade and Abolition

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Sugar and the Rise of the Plantation System (World History Encyclopedia)
James Hancock, World History EncyclopediaEmergence of the Sugar Beet section
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Slavery had been abolished across most of the world by then, and these sugar plantations all came to depend on indentured workers, mostly from India.
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