A Batik Artist explains the unique process for producing batikCapture Date: Jan 4, 2014 11:05 AM•Views: 70No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Early stage in the batik production processCapture Date: Jan 4, 2014 11:06 AM•Views: 73No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Magnificent, unique colors produced by CaribelleCapture Date: Jan 4, 2014 11:08 AM•Views: 71No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Magnificent, unique colors produced by CaribelleCapture Date: Jan 4, 2014 11:09 AM•Views: 70No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Romney ManorCapture Date: Jan 4, 2014 11:25 AM•Views: 70No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Tom with the ruins of the Wingfield Estate sugar plantation in the backgroundCapture Date: Jan 4, 2014 11:48 AM•Views: 73No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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A lady originally from St Kitts who now lives and works in New JerseyCapture Date: Jan 4, 2014 11:48 AM•Views: 70No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Smokestack ruins-Wingfield Estate Sugar plantationCapture Date: Jan 4, 2014 11:49 AM•Views: 71No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Brimstone Hill from Romney ManorCapture Date: Jan 4, 2014 11:49 AM•Views: 70No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Ebenezer Methodist ChurchCapture Date: Jan 4, 2014 12:03 PM•Views: 70No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Ruins of the Wingfield Estate Works Plantation
Wingfield Estate was founded in 1625 and the original crops produced here were cotton, tobacco and indigo. By 1682 sugar cane cultivation was commenced and a water powered system was developed to convert the cane juice to sugar. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the sugar plantation and mill were gradually expanded. Mollasses and rum was also produced for export and local consumption. Sugar Cane was harvested by hand while the mill was powered by steam and water. In 1820, the mill was shut down as sugar production moved to a large sugar factory in Basseterre. Sugar cane was still grown here and transported by rail to Basseterre. This site is being restored as a heritage site with funding from the European Union as St Kitts, though independent, is part of the British Commonwealth. Sugar cane cultivation and sugar production once formed the backbone of St Kitts' economy. Since the economics of sugar cane production depended on the labor of African slaves, the industry declined sharply with the end of slavery
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Wingfield EstateCapture Date: Jan 4, 2014 12:14 PM•Views: 71No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Georgia at Wingfield EstateCapture Date: Jan 4, 2014 12:15 PM•Views: 71No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Wingfield Sugar Estate ruins
Sugar was once the most important crop in the world. It was used to make molasses and rum, and to sweeten the cuisines of people around the world. And because sugar cane grows in warm, tropical climates, the Caribbean islands were the perfect places to grow it. European settlers from England, France, Spain, and Holland came to the region, cut down the islands' forests, and planted sugar cane.Of all the English colonies in the Caribbean, St. Kitts was the oldest and wealthiest - with rich volcanic soil and an ideal climate. Annually St. Kitts yielded a fortune in sugar and rum for its wealthy, mostly absentee, landholders. By around 1775, the time of the American Revolution, 68 sugar plantations existed on St. Kitts, one for every square mile. The plantation owners sold their sugar products to American, British, French and Dutch customers. They are also credited with production innovations that led St.Kitts to become the world leader in sugar cane cultivation, and a catalyst for the industrial revolution.
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Wingfield Sugar Estate
A Bitter Sweet Ending: The persistent arguments, outcries, and writings of three prominent English residents of St. Kitts, are said to have influenced the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807 more than any other factor. And with the total abolishment of slavery throughout all the British colonies in 1834, came the end of the sugar industry. Europe's beet sugar undersold Caribbean cane. Depressed market prices could not offset the production and transportation costs for an island crop. In 2005, due to plummeting profits, the Government closed both the cane fields and sugar factory. Tourism is now the major source of income for St. Kitts. The sugar train railway is now home to the St. Kitts Scenic Railway, a unique tour that takes visitors through many of the plantation ruins.
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