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A newly built trail was designed to revitalize interior villages with coffee plantations and cloud forests, with hikers engaging in an epic sea-to-sea trek.
The remains of the 19th-century coffee plantations in the foothills of the Sierra Maestra are unique evidence of a pioneer form of agriculture in a difficult terrain. They throw considerable light on ...
Forests were cleared to plant valuable crops such as sugar, coffee, and tobacco ... were transported across the Atlantic to work on Caribbean plantations. Over a short period of time, black ...
In response, the owners of the large Caribbean plantations decided to switch to ... of sugar to sweeten luxury drinks such as tea and coffee. Engraving showing enslaved Africans harvesting sugar ...