Documentaries of Interest

Molasses, a by-product of the sugar refining process, was initially just production refuse until some inventive Celtic worker in Barbados thought it could be fermented and distilled into a alcoholic spirit (Williams xiv). It was this spirit that fueled the slave trade because of its profitability, portability, trade capability, and its distance to the source of its production kept it conveniently out of site, allowed New England and citizens to prosper without having to directly dirty their hands in the horrendous slave trade (Standage 102). The production of sugar and it reliance on slavery has a very long history. Having both a sweet tooth and a propensity to enslave others seems to have been part of the human race since almost the beginning of time (Mintz 6, 7). Sugarcane was most likely an indigenous tall perennial grass from New Guinea. Prior to the first millennium AD, it found it’s way to India and later, via Arab merchants, to the entire coastal Muslim World (Mintz xix). It was during the first Crusades that Europeans became addicted to this wondrous sweetness and became forever hooked – wanting more and more. However, the sugar making process is extremely labor-intensive. By 1490, after Portugal’s acquisition of the West African islands of Madeira, Cape Verde, So Tomẻ, the Azores, Reynolds and Spain’s take over of Sicily and appropriation of the Canary Islands, sugar production and the use of African slave labor were appallingly shackled together until the mid-19th century. ref: http://www.academia.edu/

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