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Big Sugar marks the emergence as a major voice--
and with a major subject--of Alec wilkinson, al-
ready established as one of our most gifted young
writers, author of two aeclaimed books: Midnights: A
Year with the Wellfleet Police and Moonshine: A Life
in Pursuit of white Liquor~
His new book is a revelation of a largely unknown
American scandal: the brutal exploitation of migrant
West Indian cane cutters in south Florida by the big
sugar companies. Mad he depicts-- with a respect for
the particulars of human lives that transcends mere
expos6--the world that the cane cutters have made
as thev endure their perilous work and situation.
The story he tells is one of unapologetic exploita-
tion that seems to belong to an earlier time or to
another country, wilkinson describes in compelling
detail how the sugar cane is grown, and how it is
harvested--a job so dangerous, hot, exhausting, and
low-payiug that American workers will not accept it.
He tells how just forty-seven years ago the biggest of
the sugar growers, then employing Americans, was
indicted for slavery, and how, rather than reform its
practices, big sugar has sustained its vastly profitable
enterprise by replacing Americans with West In-
dians (mostly ,Jamaicans) imported seasonally, who
can silnply be shipped home if they do not do exactly
as they are told.
But Big Sugar is more than a record of exploita-
tion. wilkinson leads us to know the Florida towns
of Belle Glade and Clewiston, where the cutters are
barracked-little pieces of the Third World in the
United States--and the small islands of pleasure,
from taverns to brothels and enticingly stoeked
stores, that the eane cutters have found there.
Above all, we hear the voices of the cutters them-
selves as they reeount their lives and hardships. "We
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