Old Well and Sugar Kettle From the Barbarra Plantation (Garconniere)

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This file appears in: Sugar Granulation on the Boré Plantation

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An image of a sugar kettle enslaved people used where sugar cane was cooked down to produce sugar.

This file appears in: Sugar Granulation on the Boré Plantation

Sugar Granulation on the Boré Plantation

By Taylor Lindner, edited by Kalie A. Dutra & Kathryn O'Dwyer

Antoine Morin, a free man of color, invented a sugar granulation process that launched the greed of Étienne de Boré and the intense labor demanded from enslaved people.