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The Art of Garnet Ifill
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Dr. Brinsley Samaroo
Paperback, illustrated 64pp
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ISBN: 1 870518 76 4
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The sugar industry in Trinidad and Tobago is being considerably reduced in size and will no longer dominate the landscape of central Trinidad as it did for the last two centuries. During these long years, Indian labourers joined their African brethren and complemented their labour in the production of ‘brown gold’. Many thousands were employed and a unique culture developed in the sugar belt.
By the middle of the twentieth century, most of the artifacts of that industry were undergoing change as modern technology increasingly replaced the older, less mechanized modes of production. At this critical juncture of modernization a young photographer decided to capture that departing heritage.
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