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    <h1>Welcome</h1>

    <p>The first edition of <em>The Sugar-Cane</em>, a 168-page poem about eighteenth-century Caribbean sugar plantations, appeared in London in 1764. We have created one full-text version of the poem and a page-by-page reading experience, as well as excerpts that highlight counter-plantation themes within the poem. For a more detailed description of the project, see the <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/about.html">About</a> page.</p>
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      <h2>The 1764 Edition</h2>
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        <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/paginated/sc-first_pages_front_1.html">Page by Page</a> |
        <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/glossary.html">Glossary</a> |
        <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/bibliography.html">Bibliography</a> |
        <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/poetry-and-slavery.html">Poetry and Slavery</a>
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      <h2>The Counter-Plantation</h2>
        <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/excerpts/animals.html">Animals</a> |
        <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/excerpts/climate.html">Climate</a> |
        <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/excerpts/fire.html">Fire</a> |
        <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/excerpts/indigenous-presence.html">Indigenous Presence</a> |
        <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/excerpts/movement.html">Movement</a> |
        <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/excerpts/obeah.html">Obeah</a> |
        <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/excerpts/provision_grounds.html">Provision Grounds</a> |
        <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/excerpts/sugar-work.html">Sugar Work</a> |
        <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/excerpts/tyranny.html">Tyranny</a>
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    <div style="font-size:12px">Images for "The 1764 Edition" and "The Counter-Plantation" are courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. The image for "The 1764 Edition" is a lithograph from Pierre Jacques Benoit, <em>Voyage à Surinam</em>, Brussels, 1839, pl. 28. The image for "The Counter-Plantation" is a hand-colored stipple engraving from Michel Etienne Descourtilz's <em>Voyages d'un naturaliste</em>, v. 2, Paris, 1809, frontispiece. The image at the top of the page is an original work of art by Vanessa Lee.</font>
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