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The John Batchelor Show / Daniel Rood, author of In the Shadow of the Great House, traces how the plantation system evolved globally, with Cuba becoming a sugar powerhouse using industrial steam technology after the Haitian Revolution. In modern Brazil, multinational corporations

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