ABOUT RED SUGARCANE PRESS
RED SUGARCANE PRESS, INC. is an independent press dedicated to presenting works about the Puerto Rican and Latinx Diasporas in the Americas. We publish well-known and emerging artists whose distinct voices and artistic styles break new ground, educate, promote dialogue, and entertain. The publications reflect the journey of indigenous and African peoples who from enslavement to the present, have triumphed through the courage and tenacity of many generations.
Our interest is in contemporary works that reflect the passions and convictions of people's lives and struggles. As poets, playwrights, and essayists, the authors of RED SUGARCANE PRESS also recover forgotten or unknown stories from the journeys of indigenous and African peoples in the Americas who from enslavement to the present have triumphed through the courage and tenacity of many generations.
RED SUGARCANE PRESS is dedicated to the exchange of ideas and views toward advancing a more humane and just world.
Iris Morales
Publisher and Executive Editor
All Red Sugarcane Press books are available on Amazon. Some titles are also available at Barnes & Noble online.
Libraries and bookstores can order print and ebook versions through Ingram.
Ebook titles available at the following outlets: Apple Books, Kobo, Smashwords, Tolino, OverDrive, cloudLibrary, Everand, among others.
Red Sugarcane Press Books
Red Sugarcane Press Authors
Book Cover Artists & Designers
Juan Sanchez, Walter Velez, Rudy Gutierrez,
Mia Roman,
Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, Iris Morales, and Kayla Creamer
History of Sugarcane
Originating 8,000 years ago in New Guinea, the sugar plant traveled east and expanded west to Spain. In 1492, European powers began the colonization of the Western Hemisphere, and, for more than three centuries, captured and transported more than 10 million Africans to work as slaves on plantations, mostly in sugar production.
Africans in the Americas fought the enslavement uniting with indigenous peoples, and runaway slave communities became bases for resistance, raids on plantations, and revolts. Escaped slaves continued the African traditions, religious systems, music and language arts that thrive to the present day.
When slavery was officially abolished, plantation owners turned to sugarcane laborers at meager wages. Today, the history of sugarcane production continues in many parts of the world under unjust labor conditions.