Sugar plantation
The sugar plantation was more than just a working place. For the slaves, the master and his family as well as staff the plantation were their home. A typical plantation consisted of a great house were the master lived with his family, a factory as the sugar had to be processed immediately, a sugar and or animal mill, a hospital, stables and a slave village besides the many sugar cane fields. The impact The plantation was the backbone of the Danish colonial era. They have left a big impact on St. Croix. The old plantation names are today the names of the different areas of island. You can live in “Sion Farm�, Castle Coakley, Annaberg, Bulows Minde, et cetera (Lunn, 2016).
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