Looking back without Nostalgia (Suriname
Even though the sugar industry has now completely disappeared from Suriname, its legacy can still be traced in the faces of local people. In Suriname sugar has been inextricably tied to migration. The need for cheap labour brought different groups of immigrants to Suriname at different stages of its colonial history. Some came involuntarily, some acting on promises made, others in search of a better life. American photographer James Whitlow Delano visited a wide range of ethnic groups whose histories have been linked with the sugar industry, laying bare the demographic history of this diverse nation.
