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Source: Franklin Wright, The Caribbean; The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism, 1990

What is the relationship between slave population and sugar production as the years go by?

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Source: William Belgove, A Treatise Upon Husbandry or Planting, 1775

What is required to own a sugar plantation of at least 500 acres?  Think in general terms, do not just list items.

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Source: Austin and Woodruff, Private Tooth Decay as Public Economic Virtue, 1990

What is the relationship between population and sugar consumption as the years go by?

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Source: Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery, 1944

Note: An "absentee owner" is an owner who is not present on the plantation, they hire overseers to operate the plantation

Based on the information below, what made the sugar trade possible?

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Source: Aronson and Budhos, Sugar Changed the World

How is the taste of sugar different than salt or sour tastes according to the author in the passage below?

" Scientists have shown that people all over the world must learn to like salty tastes, sour tastes, mixed tastes. But from the moment we are born, we crave sweetness. Cane sugar was the first product in human history that perfectly satisfied that desire. And the bitter lives of the enslaved Africans produced so much sugar that pure sweetness began to spread around the world.  Between the 1600s and the 1800s, sugar drove the entire economy lining Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The true Age of Sugar had begun – and it was doing more to reshape the world than any ruler, empire, or war had ever done."

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Source: R. Bridgens, a 19th century boiling-house, 1820

What do you suppose is being pictured here?

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Source: W. Clark, Ten Views of Antigua

What do you suppose is pictured here?

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Source: Sydney W. Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

Based on the information below, why might English citizens want sugar?

" Sugar as a sweetener came to the fore in connection with three other exotic imports - tea, coffee, and chocolate - of which one, tea, became and has since remained the most important non alcoholic beverage in England. All are tropical products and all were new to England in the third quarter of the 17th century (1600s). "

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Source: E.T. Parris, The Sugar Hogshead, London 1846

Note: A hogshead was a large barrel that typically carried between 700-1200 lbs of sugar. In the 1760s the typical West Indian trade ship carried about 65 hogsheads in its hold.

What are the children doing in this picture and why are they doing it?