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The Industrialization of Sugar
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What was it like before sugar?
"After the early modern era, sugar was no longer categorized as a fairly unknown good that had multiple uses. Now, during the Industrial Revolution, sugar is categorized as a luxury good and is known to establish and maintain social ties during 1750-1900."
~Industrial Revoloution (1751-1900)
The Industrialization of Sugar
What about now?
#1 producer of sugar
Imported People
What about the slaves?
Although sugar...
“Caribbean islands became sugar-production machines, powered by slave labor. In pursuit of sugar fortunes, millions of people were worked to death, and then replaced by more enslaved Africans brought by still more slave ships"
~Living in the Atlantic World: New Tastes, New Trades
Put the Caribbean on the map...
Slaves had to be imported
The Caribbean?
“Jamaica possessed superb growing conditions for sugar cane, and by 1513, Spanish farmers in the island’s earliest European settlement, Sevilla la Nueva, tended fields bristling with the green stalks."
- Sugar Masters in a New World
African-American Slaves
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