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Photo of sugarcane fields, Virgin Islands, 1941

Sugarcane fields on the Virgin Islands where criminals and slaves once worked

CREDIT: Delano, Jack, photographer. "Sugar Cane Country, The Virgin Islands." December 1941. America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945, Library of Congress.



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