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St Kitts Island: a sugary sweet travel destination

Sugar cane has been one of the most popular crops in the world for decades. Because it grows well in warm climates, European settlers have seen a potential for prosperity in Caribbean destinations such as St Kitts Island (Saint Christopher Island). Upon conquest, forests were cut down and replaced by sugar plantations for the manufacture of molasses, rum, and raw sugar. St Kitts Island, the largest and wealthiest English colony in the Caribbean, once held 68 profitable plantations on a 68-acre surface. Things began to improve in the 19th century, though. With the end of slavery, the fall in the …

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