Sugar And Slave Trade

In today’s society, sugar is just another product that is used daily but what we don’t know is the bad side of sugar. Sugar was the product that created the slave trade. It was an addiction to people and a nightmare for slaves. It caused a lot pain and killing but it also brought sweet taste in food. Sugar comes from a crop called sugar cane. Sugar can is a native crop to Polynesia and later on moved to China and India. It was widely used in India and in China sugar cane was chewed during 1000 B.C. Three hundred years later India started to make sugar cane into sugar and introduce it to China. Europe didn’t found out about sugar until the middle ages. But before sugar cane was distilled and crystalized and made into sugar, honey was the first
It was mercantilism of the Triangular Trade that led to abolition of slavery. There are four reasons that show how slavery was abolished. The first one was Triangular trade was a mature and staple trade, so clever money didn’t last long in mature trades. This caused clever money and traders to use other routes that weren’t the Triangular Trade. The second reason was Britain controlled seas after Trafalgar. No slaves or sugar could pass by without the permission of the Royal Navy. The third reason was no one knew whether sugar was produced cheaply by slaves or by free blacks. Bankers who were Quakers thought free blacks were cheaper to use. The last reason was war which led reform to overcome resistance. All of these reason help abolish
The British and Dutch could have used oxen rather than men, brain rather than brawn and the feudal system. The reason the British and the Dutch didn’t use the feudal system was because it was old fashioned. This is important because so many African-American lives could have been saved.
• Another thing that I didn’t know before reading this chapter that I think is important is how the United States guaranteed to buy every ton of sugar that Cuba could produce during World War II. They kept on buying their sugar until 1950 when the worldwide shortage was over. This caused Cuba the economic stagnation which then led to the whole problem with Fidel Castro. I think this is important because it shows one reason how Cuba became a dictatorship.
• The last thing that I didn’t know before reading this chapter that I think is important is how sugar was made from beets and carrots. Andrew Sgismond a student at the Berlin Academy discovered that there was sugar in carrots, parsnips and sea beets. I think this is important because it was Napoleon who found Andrew studies and started using this method of selecting and crossing to create sugar in France and not to depend on Britain (Royal Navy) for