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   Ramesh #NotGoingBack (rameshgupta@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 08:34:27 JST Ramesh #NotGoingBack

   Ruins of exploitative 18th c. #CinnamonBay #plantation and sugar factory on St. John in #US #VirginIslands.

   Edit: Diff plantation. This is one of 4 plantations now owned by descendants of former slaves.

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     ⬆️ Inside the #Annaberg #Plantation sugar factory ruins.

     That large round structure is a room-sized boiling pot in which they boiled sugarcane juice to make molasses before they were dried and shipped off to the Danish colonizers’ home country.

     It took more than a 100 years for #emancipation in US Virgin Islands after the 1733 #SlaveRevolt

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     Ramesh #NotGoingBack (rameshgupta@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 08:34:26 JST Ramesh #NotGoingBack

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     ⬆️ Ruins of exploitative 18th c. #CinnamonBay #plantation and sugar factory on St. John in #US #VirginIslands.

     This is what remains of the windmill that powered the sugar factory on the plantation.

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     ⬆️ Spectacular view of #CinnamonBay from the Cinnamon Bay Plantation in St. John, #US #VirginIslands

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     ⬆️ Ruins of the #Annaberg Plantation in St. John, US #VirginIslands.

     This area is under preservation by the National Parks Service, which now owns 90% of St. John

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     ⬆️ Hollowed out ruins of the #Annaberg #Plantation sugar factory

     Bill repeated this.