ANTH 1120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas, Brown Sugar, Banana Leaf
21 Jan 2017
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Sweetness & power: the place of sugar in. Caribbean region tropical products due to agriculture. Had to do w/ development since european conquest. People in caribbean = descended from amerinds and settlers from europe, africa, asia. Were rural/agricultural: worked among countryside, conditions they worked under, sugar, rum, coffee chocolate production. North americans gone into vitals of 1898 life in puerto rico lived w/ cane worker in a shack: houses built near roads, small villages, not many stores, unarable fields. Went into fields for the fieldwork during harvest. No machines to do the work only humans were. Puerto ricans only got a little of the sugar produced. No one talked about how white granulated sugar was made. 1919-20 dance of the millions price of sugar at a high. Sugar cane surrounded by other harvests (coffee, chocolate, indigo, tobacco, etc. ) Sugar was in high demand around the world for many centuries. Small-scale retailing in jamaica wagons would have lots of brown sugar.
