It increased its direct trade with the Africans and set up plantations to grow sugar for export to…
In 1645 the New England colonies first started transporting slaves from Africa to Barbados and sometimes colonial ships would result to captive labor like their European counterparts. By this time the west indes was creating such an abundant amount of sugar for the New England colonies to trade and make into molasses and rum but the northern colonies profited beyond the sugar trade. The…
rationale. Note the limits of the question in terms of place and time. Discussing the sugar colonies in the West Indies…
The second reason that drove the sugar trade is plantations, which include lands, climate, and slave. Since people want to make some profits by trading sugar, they need a nice farm and an ideal climate for growing sugar. From the chart in document 2, we can see that Jamaica and Barbados have perfect climate for growing sugar. So this allowed people to make more and more sugar, and get a lot of money from it. At that time, the slave is very cheap, that chart in document 9 shows us that average purchase price of adult male slave on West African coast in 1748 is £14, and the average selling price of adult male slave in the British Caribbean is £32. So, we can see the slave is not expensive at all. This allowed people to get a lot of slaves work on the farm, which meant more sugar produced. From the chart in document 10, we can easily see how much the…
The economic influences that forced the hand of slavery were over goods. The goods that were in high demand were sugar and tobacco. It has been argued that if it wasn’t for the high demand of these products especially more than anything else sugar the slave trade might not have been as astronomical as it was.…
Our ancestors invented supplies to move around and also for protection another thing they did was how to farm and when was the right time to farm. This led our farmers to plant sugar canes to get sugar which it was first grown in New Guinea about 900 years ago. The first trade was when Guinea carried sugar cane stalks to India. The sugar caused a huge industry because it was a brand new product grown,it also made more labor for the people, and it made the capital make new laws for trading.…
The Sugar Act in 1764 increased duties on imported sugar and other items such as textiles, coffee, wines and indigo (dyes). It doubles the obligation to store foreign goods from England into the colonies and also prohibits imports of foreign rum and French wines. The colonists disliked this law because they had to pay double for foreign goods. They showed their dislike by mailing 50 letters to Parliament, eventually getting the law changed.…
The immediate addiction European citizens developed to the new sweetener drove the sugar trade between Europe and the Caribbean. In order to feed this addiction, slave labor in the Caribbean emerged, taking advantage of the islands which proved to be perfect for the growth of Europe’s newest drug. The population of Europe strongly desired sugar for sweetening imports, especially coffee, tea and chocolate. The citizens craved the sweet taste and demanded to be supplied with more of the drug. The price of slaves, the driving force behind the production of sugar, reflected this love of the sweetener, as the demand for sugar rose so did the price of slaves. But, as the price of slaves rose so did the price of owning and maintaining a sugar plantation…
Sugar plantations in the seventeenth century involved slaves and freemen engaging in brute labor. The plantation would include a mill, boiling house, curing house, distillery for rum, and a storehouse. The structure alone presented refined technology of the time and included a large work force. Yet not all of the workers were involved in the laborious employment as some worked in the specialized labor of crushing, boiling, and distilling sugar plants. The sugar mills were identified as the first factories due to the complexity, scale, and group management of the mills. The process of creating the final product of sugar was time dependent. It consisted of…
Secondly, Slavery was an important factor to be the reason for the expansion of sugar. Moreover, Sugar industries were having a lack in labor to work on the sugar…
The Portuguese imported enslaved Africans to Madeiras to work on sugar plantations. The success with sugar on Madeiras led Portugal to begin planting sugar on other islands. It went west across the Atlantic to the other…
in 1493, Colon introduced Sugar cane plants to the Carribeans. Cristobal Colon knew that sugar and slave were inseperable and that would bring tremendous profit (wealth) from sugar.…
This paper relates to the concepts I learned from weeks one and two of my Economics class and how market forces affect the price of sugar. Characterized by volatile prices and widespread intervention sugar is one of the most massively traded agricultural commodities in the international and local markets (Sariannidis, 2010, p. 1). Sugar is one of the staple foods most people cannot live without. The reason I am using sugar as the subject of this paper is because I observed raw sugar has doubled its price over the past 18 months. The consumers’ demand for sugar has increased and the supply of sugar has decreased. The high-cost of sugar is forcing industrial companies to use other artificial substitute sweeteners in their products. In certain cases this sacrifices the quality and taste of the industrial companies’ products. Sugar comes in various grades and quality with household quality increasing the most. In this paper I will relate the following economic concepts: (a) law of demand, (b) determinants of demand, (c) law of supply, (d) determinants of supply, (e) shortages and surpluses, and market efficiency of sugar. The following paragraphs explain the different economic factors that affect the sugar market.…
On a typical 18th century sugar plantation, self- sufficiency was promoted by the workers, fuel,…
Additionally, the Dutch owned colonies in Brazil however for only a short period of time until it was recaptured by the Portuguese whilst there they converted the colony through trade and capital into a prosperous tropical crop producing colony. Sugar was the premier crop of choice, following the Portuguese recapture of Brazil the Dutch ventured to the eastern Caribbean taking with them their developed expertise…