In addition to Primark, AB Foods also owns British Sugar, and a number of well-known food brands such as Kingsmill, Ryvita and Ovaltine.

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Originally pejorative, the term Cocolo , which refers to the migrants working on the British sugar plantation of the island, is now used proudly.

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For Booker, a 159-year-old British firm that started off as a sugar producer in South America, it meant anticipating the nationalisation of its core business and moving into shipping and shopkeeping.

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Over the next 40 years, the British imported labour from India to work the sugar plantations.

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Resistant to the arrival of the British to St Vincent in 1763, the Garinagu fought attempts to use their land for sugar cane plantations and many were killed or imprisoned.

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The Cocolo dancing drama tradition developed among descendants of British Caribbean slaves who had come to the Dominican Republic in the mid-nineteenth century to work in the sugar fields.

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