HTST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bagasse, British America, French West Indies
14 Mar 2018
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Please keep sheets and exam together when you turn them in. -similar to tea in some respects (medicinal, for elites, for show) -quest for profit drives expansion of european sugar production. -plantations as transformers (land and labour: producing sugar, concluded, processing, concluded. -rise of african slavery in caribbean, with attendant economic linkages. -[european immigrants to 1760: 2,027,000: change over time. -1700s, peak trade, to americas https://commons. wikimedia. org/wiki/file:atlantic_slavetrade_estimates. png: slave trade complexity. -complex linkages and investment networks http://todayinsocialsciences. blogspot. ca/2012/10/some-interactive-maps-about- triangular. html: destinations. Sugar: accounts for up to 90% at times (1575-1820) Also created massive forced migration and new (particularly harsh) system of slavery. -functional adaptations for working-class: tea and sugar shake the world, sugar and political events, why this? (queen on our money, origins of the united states. -movement of peoples (mostly coerced: environmental and human costs. -the slave trade"s cost on west and west central africa.
