KAYONA CAMPBELL

HISTORY
JANUARY 13, 2021
CW 1
1. A. Three jobs on the sugar plantation that were considered “particularly
hard” were holing which was digging holes for planting, digging up old
cane and the cutting of mature cane.

B. Enslaved women were valued highly for their productive roles in the
plantation system. Many field workers were women because the males
were needed to do the skilled work. This is also because their longer life
expectancy also meant that they worked much longer in the fields.
Another reason why many field workers were women is African women
were already accustomed to agricultural labor in Africa.

C. The enslaved people would first be required to transport the cut sugar
cane immediately from the fields to the mills in wagons. They would then
feed the canes using their hands into the crusher which was made up of
iron rollers. This was done to extract the juice from the canes. These
enslaved people would have to take turns to feed the cane into the
rollers. The canes were then sent to the trash house to be used as animal
feed. The juice from the rollers were then sent to a wooden trough into a
large cooper clarifier to the boiling house in which they were monitored
by the enslaved.
The juice was heated with white lime. The scum from the mixture was
scraped off by the enslaved and used in the making of rum. In the making
of rum, the enslaved would add yeast and water to the distilled molasses.
The purified juice was boiled and then passed through four boilers. The
enslaved would constantly stir the juice until the overseer decide when
the juice is boiled enough after which the molasses would be drained off
very slowly over a three week period. The enslaved would then barrel the
molasses which would then be taken out of the curing house where the
molasses had been boiled again to make a type of sugar called peneles
and brought to the harbor.