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In the earliest days, much of the sugar arriving at the Havemeyer family’s refinery on the Williamsburg waterfront had been harvested by slaves. It was mixed into a dirty slurry, boiled in enormous vats and filtered through charred animal bones.
David W. Dunlap, “Relics of the Domino Sugar Refinery, Frozen in Time and Syrup,” The New York Times, Oct. 23, 2013.