{"id":24,"slug":"annaberg-sugar-plantation-u-s-virgin-islands","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Annaberg is the 600's ground — the enslaved Africans who worked it, the windmill and the factory that are the ruins. The revolt was the context — the '33 Akwamu insurrection that took the fort, the island that burned for six months. The dungeon is the record — the cell in the sick house, the ship drawings on the walls by the imprisoned.","The whip was the punishment — the Venus who got 100 lashes, the chain she wore for two months. The escape was the break — the Joe Popp who got out of the dungeon, the resistance that was documented. Annaberg is the brutal — the plantation that kept the names, the ruins that are the NPS memorial.","The file keeps Annaberg: the 600 enslaved, the '33 revolt, the dungeon, and the ruins.","Annaberg is the archive's St. John file — the sugar works' record."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Annaberg is the archive's St. John file — the Danish slavery's monument.","A ruin keeps its prisoners — the file's suggestion being that Annaberg's hold is the documentation: the named enslaved, the dungeon with the ship drawings, and the revolt that was the context."]}],"name":"Annaberg Sugar Plantation","aliases":["Annaburg Sugar Plantation"],"type":"PLANTATION","type_label":"Plantation","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","RUINS","PLANTATION","HISTORIC_SITE"],"groups":["dark-history","ghost-towns"],"desc":"St. John plantation ruins interpreting enslavement and sugar production.","full_desc":"Annaberg Sugar Plantation is a plantation in Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands. St. John plantation ruins interpreting enslavement and sugar production. The archive files it under dark history, ruins and plantation. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Cruz Bay","county":null,"state":"U.S. Virgin Islands","postal":null,"region":"Caribbean","lat":18.36396,"lon":-64.730939,"coord_kind":"EXACT","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Dark-history inclusion grounded in documented enslavement; no haunting implied.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"HIGH","score":80,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0.85,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"The plantation belonged to Frederick Moth in the eighteenth century; surviving structures include a sugar factory and quarters for enslaved workers. A house in Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands with this much documented history gives the dossier substance underneath the lore. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The record appears in 'Annaburg Sugar Plantation'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Annaburg Sugar Plantation","url":"https://www.nps.gov/places/annaburg-sugar-plantation.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},{"description":"Annaberg preserves an 18th-century sugar plantation; the 1733 slave revolt began on St. John. The record dates it to 1733-11-23. Annaberg Sugar Plantation's history is documented rather than told — this entry is part of that spine. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Virgin Islands National Park' carry the record. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1733-11-23","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Virgin Islands National Park","url":"https://www.nps.gov/viis","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[{"name":"1733 slave revolt","type":"REVOLT","date_start":"1733-11-23","date_end":"1734-05-01","description":"On November 23, 1733, enslaved Africans seized the fort on St. John and declared the island free — the first successful slave revolt in the Americas, holding the island for six months before French and Danish forces crushed it. Its leaders reportedly chose death over recapture; the Annaberg plantation ruins inside the national park are their quiet monument.","evidence":"REVOLT","source":{"name":"Virgin Islands National Park","url":"https://www.nps.gov/viis","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"parking":"Auto parking listed by NPS.","public_restroom":"Restrooms listed by NPS.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-14T10:36:19+00:00","source":{"name":"Annaburg Sugar Plantation","url":"https://www.nps.gov/places/annaburg-sugar-plantation.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},"sources":[{"name":"Annaburg Sugar Plantation","url":"https://www.nps.gov/places/annaburg-sugar-plantation.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"Virgin Islands National Park","url":"https://www.nps.gov/viis","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}],"conflicts":[{"field_name":"short_description","existing_value":"St. John plantation ruins interpreting enslavement and sugar production.","incoming_value":"The St. John ruins interpreting the enslaved who built them.","notes":"Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite."},{"field_name":"full_description","existing_value":"Annaberg Sugar Plantation is a plantation in U.S. Virgin Islands. 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