Sugar Cane Plantation in Barbados, West Indies, 1920s - Film 1015022

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Film about the Sugar plantations of Barbados, West Indies, Caribbean, 1920's planting and weeding sugar cane fields men and women work in the fields in cotton shifts and floppy hats. Cane cutting. Women load on oxen carts, on tractor also. Mule carts walking out of the cane fields. Carts pulled by tractor. Cranes take cane to factories. Juice extracted. Girls dance together because they are happy, sugar for lunch.
Interesting and somewhat patronising intertitles - racist
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