The worst part of this job, which is saying something, because there were many bad parts, was fertilizing the sugar cane. This required slaves to carry 80-pound baskets of manure on their heads up and down hilly terrain. Mr. Green, Mr. Green, isn't there a poop joke in there somewhere? Nope. Me from the past, because this whole thing is too depressing. When it came time to harvest and process the cane, speed was incredibly important, because once cut, sugar sap can go sour within a day. This meant that slaves would often work 48 hours straight during harvest time, working without sleep in the sweltering sugar press houses, where the cane would be crushed in hand rollers and then boiled.