HIS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sugarcane, Underground Railroad, Code Noir
4 Jan 2019
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A method of packing slaves on to ships for transport. Resulted as the need for slaves grew exponentially. Europeans were not used to growing crops like cotton and sugar. Slaves harvested these crops and the raw materials were sent to europe for processing. Like cotton being sent to england to be made into cloth and sewed into clothing. The sugar plantation was even more laborious; it was farming and factory. Sugar cane fields took an intense amount of labour; hacking at the cane in the fields, transportation, processing and boiling and refining which also took extra slave labour. A planter estimated that an owner who had 100 slaves on a sugar cane plantation would kill all of them in 19 years due to the intense toll it took on the bodies of slaves. 335 000 slaves arrived in jamaica over a four year period. In 1788, the jamaican census recorded 226 422 living people on the island.
