Big Sugar: Seasons in the Cane Fields of Florida

In 1942, the U.S. Sugar Corporation was indicted for enslaving the black American cane-cutters working their Florida plantations. In what PW judged a ``graphic'' and ``forceful'' presentation, New Yorker writer Wilkinson reveals that the growers, protected by the sugar lobby, sugar import quotas and government foreign workers' programs, still treat 10,000 West Indian, mainly Jamaican, cutters like slaves. (Nov.)