Both leading candidates in Sri Lanka’s presidential election are promising to give land to the country’s hundreds of ...

Drayton Hall Plantation In Charleston SC: A Pillar of History in the Heart of the South Drayton Hall in Charleston SC is one ...

Although it looks more like a farmhouse than a plantation, it was considered a mansion in colonial times because of its large ...

Bound by contract, the workers lived in isolation on remote plantations with poor infrastructure. Pickers today say the patriarchal work system that was in place during those colonial times has ...

By the 1650s, many plantations on the islands had their own distilleries ... the Navigation Acts hindered American shipping until around 1830. By the end of the colonial period, "only about ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A woman tea plantation worker plucks tea leaves at an estate in Badulla, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024 ...

Fires have destroyed more than 11 million hectares of forests and plantations in Brazil this year. A devastating combination of severe drought, above-average temperatures and extremely dry air ...

When sugar mills were being set up in Fiji in the 1870s and 1880s it was hoped that Fijians would be the major supplier of cane. Initially cane was grown by Fijians as a tax crop. Each province was ...

Inland Rice Cultivation in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1670–1860 ...