Preview

History Sba

Powerful Essays
Open Document
Open Document
2027 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
History Sba
HISTORY | SCHOOL BASED ASSESSMENT | | Name: Shanta Rowe Registration#: School: Glenmuir High School Territory: Jamaica Year of Examination: 2011 | |

Acknowledgement

The researcher would like to thank the following for helping in the completion of this study: firstly, the researcher’s would like to thank the Almighty Father God for the health and strength and knowledge needed to do this study. Secondly, gratitude is expressed to the researcher’s family for moral support. Also the researcher would like to thank the staff at the Kingston and St. Andrew parish library for provided all the necessary books and last but not least the researcher’s the teacher Mrs. Meikle for giving the researcher all the necessary tips during the process of doing this study.
S.Rowe

Title Page

Theme 5: Adjustments to Emancipation 1838 - 1876

Research Question:
What were the challenges faced by the Sugar Industry by the English speaking Caribbean between 1838 and the latter part of the nineteenth century?

Table of Contents

Title Page
Rationale 1
Introduction 2
CHALLENGES
Labour 3
Capital 4
Technology 5-6
Free Trade 7-8
Conclusion 9
Bibliography 10
Appendix 11

Rationale

The researcher chose to do this study because of deep curiosity as to what really were the challenges faced by the Sugar Industry in the English speaking Caribbean after emancipation in 1838.
The researcher hopes that this study will be beneficial to future individuals who will be doing a similar research topic or those who just want to be further informed about what actally lead to the fall in the Sugar Industry after the blacks finally got emancipation in the English speaking Caribbean.

Introduction

During the post emancipation years the



Bibliography: Beckles & Shepherd, Caribbean freedom: Economy and Society from Emancipation to the present First published in 1993 by Ian Publishers limited Claypole, William et al, Caribbean Story, Carlong Publishers (Caribbean) Limited Kingston Jamaica 3rd Edition Dyde, Brian et al, Emancipation to Emigration, Macmillan Publishing Limited. Oxford, Uk 3rd Edition

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    The colonies in the New World often focused on raising crops for export to build their economy. At first, farmers experimented with tobacco and cotton. These farmers were unsuccessful and looked for a new crop to grow. Sugar soon became one the most popular crops and it was generated a great amount of wealth. Sugar is substantial and the market was growing in Europe every day. If sugar were to not sell, it could be distilled into rum which was also a booming market upon the Europeans. Either way, there was no was loss in changing to sugar farms.…

    • 429 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Boyer Dbq Teacher Guide

    • 10751 Words
    • 30 Pages

    rationale. Note the limits of the question in terms of place and time. Discussing the sugar colonies in the West Indies…

    • 10751 Words
    • 30 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Sugar Interest Causes

    • 595 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The Sugar Interest had seen how the tobacco market had been affected by the influx of American tobacco. They had seen how the market had crashed and tobacco had become unprofitable due to the amount produced in the Americas. They also saw how raising of tobacco ruined the soil nutrient balance. The Caribbean…

    • 595 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    text 6

    • 1206 Words
    • 5 Pages

    The purpose of this text is to try and have an influence on the way Caribbean culture is viewed…

    • 1206 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Land to grow the sugar crops was also easily accessible during the time of the sugar trade. Document 1 shows a map of the Caribbean and indicates who owned each piece of land at the time. Before the sugar trade, Europeans hadn’t utilized this land. This made it easy to acquire and use once sugar…

    • 821 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Brooklyn Museum Analysis

    • 667 Words
    • 3 Pages

    As with other images of life in the British West Indies by Brunias the major economic reason for colonization and the creation of slave plantations in the Caribbean they did have the production of sugar and coffee we can see the windmill and plantation buildings in the distance that the land was being worked…

    • 667 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Tobacco/Cotton Slavery FRQ

    • 1684 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Compare and contrast the experience of slaves on tobacco plantations in the early seventeenth-century Chesapeake region with that of slaves on nineteenth-century cotton plantations in the Deep South. What forces transformed the institution of slavery the early seventeenth century to the nineteenth century?…

    • 1684 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Brereton, Bridget, and Kevin A. Yelvington, eds. The Colonial Caribbean in Transition: Essays on Post-emancipation Social and Cultural History. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999.…

    • 4291 Words
    • 18 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Jamaica’s blessings of surplus in natural resources attracted their fatal downfall. In 1494, Christopher Columbus sailed to Jamaica. Jamaica…

    • 1786 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Better Essays

    from Brazil to Europe was very long and Brazilian sugar was taxed in a way that…

    • 1482 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Sugar Trade

    • 464 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The land played a very important role in what was the success of sugar throughout Europe. The majority of the sugar plantations were located in the Caribbean, where the land was fertile and the climate was perfect for the production of sugar, especially in the island of Jamaica (Docs. 1 & 2). A good environment for sugar production meant more sugar; more sugar meant more produce to sell, and with more sells comes more money. These plantations…

    • 464 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    The overall conclusion must be that immigration did not cause increased sugar production in the British West Indies, as many other factors could have been…

    • 3064 Words
    • 13 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    One of the world’s most important events of the seventeenth century was the introduction of the sugar cane to the Caribbean Islands. During the “sugar revolution,” sugar was in high demand and required a greater supply of labor. The importation of African slaves through the transatlantic slave trade provided the labor necessary to keep up with the rigorous demands for sugar products. The transportation of slaves to the New World was a lucrative business, from which the Europeans greatly benefited. The Caribbean Islands produced the greatest portion of supplies from the transatlantic slave trade. The demand for sugar cane was so high by the year 1870 that more than 32000 slaves had been brought to the Caribbean. Because of the harsh conditions and rigorous demands on the plantation many slaves died rapidly.…

    • 1035 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Apa Social Work

    • 2040 Words
    • 9 Pages

    First of all I will like to thank God for the knowledge and understanding on being able to complete this assignment. This successful completion of this study would not have been possible without the assistance and cooperation of a number of people. Consequently I will like to thank the members of my family have been a constant source of encouragement and assistance. I thank my parents for relieving me from household duties while I was engaged in this study. My little brother was a great source of helping in disturbing questionnaires and collecting data.…

    • 2040 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    History Sba

    • 1333 Words
    • 6 Pages

    [3] Dookhan, Isaac A Pre-emancipation History of the West Indies, Carlong Publishers Ltd, kingston10, 33 Second Street, Newport West, Kingston 13, Jamaica, 1971.…

    • 1333 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays

Related Topics