Raising Cane

Old sugar mills dot the island. It was cool to learn a bit about how they worked at the Estate Whim museum. On that plantation, they started with oxen, then went wind power, and finally steam. 

   
   
The Danes showed up in the early 1700s, and within 30 years the island was a virtual sugarcane monoculture. Emancipation happened in 1848, but it took another 50+ years for everyone to achieve a meaningful freed status. The final sugar harvest here was in the early 1960s. 

PS — sorry about the photo rotation.  Seems to be an artifact of the iPhone app.