Essence Magazine:
By Kizzy Cox ·Updated February 27, 2023
In a recent documentary on slavery’s legacy, Grenada’s lush, idyllic hills are the backdrop for a gruesome history lesson. Black historical novelist DC Campbell explains that the locale is a former sugarcane plantation. A huge, rusted roller resembling a wheel is a relic of the era.
During slavery, enslaved people would have to crush sugarcane by feeding it into the roller, but if they were unlucky
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