plantation

For example, the narrator, Ti Noël, is a young Black man enslaved on a sugar plantation.

Over time, he gains the ability to transform into different animals, and he visits nearby plantations in these guises to help the enslaved people revolt.

Throughout the 19th century, those settlers and their descendants accumulated more influence, land, and wealth— growing rich off sugar plantations.

As cultivation boomed in Latin America, fueled by slavery, growers displaced Indigenous populations and burned forests to establish ever-expanding plantations.