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New World Economies: Sugar and the Atlantic Slave T rade I do not know if coffee and sugar are essential to the happiness of Europe, but I know well that these two products have accounted for the unhappiness of two great regions of the

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Sugar and the Atlantic Slave T rade

New World Economies:

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“I do not know if coffee and sugar are essential to the happiness of Europe, but I know well that these two products have accounted for the unhappiness of two great regions of the world: America has been depopulated so as to have land on which to plant them; Africa has been depopulated so as to have the people to cultivate them.” — J.H. Bernardin de Saint Pierre (1773)

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Contexts for the Slave T rade

immediate precedents for slave trading competition for empire among Europeans technological advances the role of consumption

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English Sugar Consumption (by hogsheads)

1660 1700 1730 1753 37,500 75,000 112,500 150,000

1,000 50,000 100,000 110,000 2,000 18,000 18,000 6,000

Consumed Exported

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1. The Economic Logic of an Immoral T

rade

Why in America and not Africa? Parts of an Answer: African resistance Indifference to trade The Heart of the Answer: Disease

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2. Sugar Rush: The Plantation System

in World Historical Context

Model Mercantilism (see definition) Producing consumption, consuming production The Plantation System as Agro- Industrial Revolution

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2. Sugar Rush: The Plantation System

in World Historical Context

Model Mercantilism (see definition) Producing consumption, consuming production The Plantation System as Agro- Industrial Revolution

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disciplined under one authority

rganization of labor

time consciousness separation of production and consumption sites separation of workers from his tools

Industrial features of plantation system:

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The Land The Structures The Labor

3. The Anatomy of a Sugar Plantation

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Holing in Antigua

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Planting cane in Antigua

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Harvesting cane in Antigua

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Milling cane in Antigua

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Plantation estate in Jamaica

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Workers’ quarters in Jamaica, c. 1980

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Slave trading in Rio

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