Proposal for History School Based Assessment Research Topic Caribbean Economy and Slavery Research Question ‘What were the economical‚ social and political consequences which resulted from the changeover of tobacco to sugarcane in the 17th Century?’ Objectives • What is the sugar revolution? • What were the reasons for the change from tobacco to sugarcane (better termed a the sugar revolution) in the 17th century • Assess the social political and economical consequences which
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•What is the sugar revolution? •What were the reasons for the change from tobacco to sugarcane (better termed a the sugar revolution) in the 17th century •Assess the social political and economical consequences which resulted from the change of tobacco to sugarcane in the 17th century Rationale The need for economic stability as well as potential growth in the French and eastern Caribbean islands led to what was best termed as the Sugar Revolution. The ‘Sugar Revolution’ was referred
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Sugar Studying sugar may seem like an ineffective way to approach the Caribbean’s rise to a globalized economy. It is quite the contrary‚ sugar rose to be an extremely popular and profitable staple for the international food economy. It grew to play a major role in what we know of today as the global food market. Sugar started developing immense popularity around the 1960’s due to colonial slavery‚ the industrialization of a global economy‚ and an increase in tea consumption. Sugar was introduced
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The Sugar Revolution Revolution means a complete change in a system. There was an economic revolution that occurred in the 17th Century. Some refer to it as the Sugar Revolution. During this period‚ several basic changes took place. (1) Sugar replaced tobacco as the chief export crop in the Caribbean. (2) The population changed from one that was mainly white to one that was mainly black because of the introduction of African slaves. (3) The size of land holdings changed. This change was pioneered
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The Sugar Revolution In the seventeenth century both in the English and to a lesser extent in the French islands‚ a change occurred in the basic cash crop. This change was so rapid and far-reaching that ‘revolutionary’ is a fitting word to describe it. It ranks in importance with emancipation‚ for the sugar revolution changed the Lesser Antilles completely. It was not just that sugar replaced tobacco as the chief crop: the population changed from white to black; the size of landholdings changed;
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novelty of life in the tropics/ to the novelty of large-scale sugar production? And to the novelty of slave labor?” Summary: Dunn’s book chronicles the settling and early growth of the first 3 generations of British colonists in the Caribbean islands. From a modest attempt to grow North American staples tobacco and cotton‚ largely with white indentures and their own labor‚ the islands quickly turned‚ with Dutch assistance‚ into great sugar plantations with large numbers of African slave labor and
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The Effects that the Sugar Revolution had on the 18th century Caribbean Society The Sugar became population in the West Indies. The English‚ French colonies who settled Caribbean island such as St.kitts in the early 16th grew tobacco in order to make money. For a little while they were able to make the profit. However by 1640’s the faced different competition from tobacco grower in virgina had certain advantages which are virgiana had large lots of fertile land. Virginia tobacco was cheaper and
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THE EFFECTS OF Migration Since the 1950’s migration has by no means on a small scale. The main reason people from the Caribbean migrate is to make a better type for themselves and their families. Many sacrifices are made when West Indians deceive their home lands for foreign lands. DISADVANTAGES AND ADVANTAGES OF MIGRATION Migration has disrupted the family structure. While parents are away trying to make a living and sending home remittances[1] guardians are expected to fulfill
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Sugar Cane Plantation 1500-1800 The American sugar industry evolved between 1500 and 1800 as planters adopted innovations in land use and in the mills. The Spanish began commercial sugar production in Hispaniola; the Portuguese followed shortly thereafter in Brazil. The sugar cane is not a native plant of the western hemisphere; it originated from New Guinea and subtropical India. Sugar plantation economy was based on agricultural mass production of sugar cane. Evidently‚ the rise of sugar economies
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a rich mulatto. Economic • Pattern of Landownership changed - before sugar and slavery there were many farmers owning small plots of land on which they grew tobacco and other cash crops. This pattern changed to a few landowners owning large estates on which they cultivated sugar cane to be manufactured into raw muscavado sugar for export to the Mother colony. • Price of land increased • Capitals were invested in the sugar industry. Most of the capital however came from the Mother Country itself
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