Kappa (Kettle) Used on a Sugar Plantation in Suriname

onbekend, 1800 - 1850

One of the most important colonial exports was sugar. Its production relied heavily on the labour and craftsmanship of enslaved people on the plantations. They boiled lika or sugar cane juice, in kappas. During the harvest, they were forced to toil day and night so that the cane did not sour. Exhaustion only made the work more dangerous.