The sugar industry has been around for a long time and has many effects. The book Sugar Changed the World, is mostly about its impact and effects on the world. The sugar industry is about how sugar has changed the world and the many effects of it on people. The authors develop their perspectives on negative and positive impacts on the world. Slaves deal with being controlled and have to work from the start of dawn to midnight. Also, don’t get paid at all because they are forced to work every day. All these people want is freedom and their rights because they are tired of being controlled every day. First, sugar greatly impacts the world towards others because of the sugar industry. In the book Sugar Changed the World, “Europeans began to see …show more content…
Sugar impacts the world by changing the world by bringing sugar to make things sweet and add a great taste and flavor. Sugar has changed our lives and the taste/sweetness of the food we eat has made our food sweeter. Next, we should not see enslaved Africans as victims, but rather as actors. In the book Sugar Changed the World, “Sugar was the production of slaves and addiction of factory workers working until midnight and not getting paid at all.” (70) The Age of Freedom is where slaves get freedom and can be equally treated by others. In the book Sugar Changed the World, By the 1800s, it was clear that the Age of Sugar was a combination of enslavement factories and global trade.”(70) The Age of Freedom is where slaves get freedom and can be equally treated as citizens and controlled by others. Sugar can have negative effects on our health, like cancer, diabetes, and possibly obesity. If you eat too much sugar, you could die because too much sugar in your body could
Slave labor is the final factor that drove the sugar trade and made it so successful. Slaves were the manual laborers on the plantations, doing the actual harvesting and boiling because the owner wasn’t there to do so (Document 8). Without the slaves working the farm, everything was pretty much useless. There is also a direct correlation between the number of slaves and the tons of sugar produced. This is shown in Document 9, where the island of Jamaica starts out with 45,000 slaves, and produces 4,782 tons of sugar. When the number of slaves increases by less than half to 74,500, the amount of sugar produced is more than tripled at 15, 972 tons. This clearly exhibits how slaves were essential to sugar
The sugar trade lasted from 1492-1700s. The Sugar Trade was a huge worldwide event. It caused African people leaving their country to go work on the sugar plantations. The Sugar Trade was drove by labor, land & consumer demand.
“The Toxic Truth About Sugar”, written by Lustig et al. varies in their usage of rhetorical strategies to try to have their readers better understand that sugar, as common as it is, can be very dangerous when a big amount is consumed in one day. The numbers in our world don’t lie: A shocking statistic is that there are currently thirty percent more people who are obese than there are healthy. This discussion arose from the staggering facts that obesity is becoming more of an epidemic than ever before. The United States has a choice to make: Take the steps necessary to slow obesity or do nothing at all, like it feels we are currently doing. This can be a good or bad rush, depending on how you assess the situation.
Sugar in its many forms is as old as the Earth itself. It is a sweet tasting thing for which humans have a natural desire. However there is more to sugar than its sweet taste, rather cane sugar has been shown historically to have generated a complex process of cultural change altering the lives of all those it has touched, both the people who grew the commodity and those for whom it was grown. Suprisingly, for something so desireable knowledge of sugar cane spread vey slow. First found in Guinea and first farmed in India (sources vary on this), knowledge of it would only arrive in Europe thousands of years later. However, there is more to the history of sugar cane than a simple story of how something was adopted piecemeal into various cultures. Rather the history of sugar, with regards to this question, really only takes off with its introduction to Europe. First exposed to the delights of sugar cane during the crusades, Europeans quickly acquired a taste for this sweet substance. This essay is really a legacy of that introduction, as it is this event which foreshadowed the sugar related explosion of trade in slaves. Indeed Henry Hobhouse in `Seeds of Change' goes so far as to say that "Sugar was the first dependance upon which led Europeans to establish tropical mono cultures to satisfy their own addiction." I wish, then, to show the repurcussions of sugar's introduction into Europe and consequently into the New World, and outline especially that parallel between the suga...
Sugar, also known as “white gold” was discovered in the Americas in the 1400s. As it became more popular, sugar set people in motion throughout the world for the purpose of building wealth; However, as a result of this, consequences of building global connections are still felt to this day. Sugar trade changed the global economy because it was a profitable resource in high demand-especially within the workforce. Consequently, it affected the worldwide working class, and also encouraged maritime trade.
The rapid growth of sugar as a food has a long and intertwining history that originated in New Guinea. Following the production, consumption, and power that corresponds with sugar, one is able to see numerous causes and effects of the changes underway in the world between 1450 and 1750. The production of sugar in the Americas eventually led to not only the creation of the Atlantic Slave Trade, but also enhanced commerce. Consumption of sugar through rapid trade helped to develop modern capitalism. The power that sugar generated dramatically changed the economic, social, and political fate of the nation as a whole.
Slavery has impacted our society today because people are still prejudiced and discriminatory towards African Americans. Still in this day, African Americans living in poverty don’t have proper education and are not given equal opportunities for jobs.
Sugar was first grown in New Guinea around 9000 years ago, which New guinea traders trade cane stalks to different parts of the world. In the New world christopher columbus introduced cane sugar to caribbean islands. At first sugar was unknown in Europe but was changed when sugar trade first began. Sugar trade was driven by the factors of production land which provided all natural resources labor what provided human resources for work and capital which includes all the factories and the money that’s used to buy land. Consumer demand was why sugar trade continued to increase.
The impact of slavery was on everyone. The acts of slavery was everywhere children watched at auctions to see if their families would get another slave. People would know that farmers slaves gained them their wealth because no farmer could do all that work.
Though sugar was rare before the Sugar Revolution, Europeans today consume the most sugar per capita. The Sugar Revolution did not stop in the Caribbeans; it spread to other places like India. Though the sugarcane originated from India, the sugar industry was further developed under the British Raj. India is currently the second largest producer of sugar after Brazil. Though the Sugar Revolution is generally considered to be an economic revolution, there were also many political effects. Without the Sugar Revolution, there would not be as many Africans, descendants of slaves, today in the Caribbeans. Without the slaves in the Caribbeans, there would have been no Haitian Revolution, no successful slave rebellions in history. With no successful slave rebellion, Haiti would not have been able to gain independence until the period of decolonization of the mid and late 20th century. An event did not occur in a local region does not necessarily mean that it has negligible effects in other regions. The lack of a bloody overthrow of the government does not necessarily mean that it has not brought change. The lack of precious metals does not necessarily mean that it will not contribute to the global
	Sweetness and Power is a historical study of sugar and its affect on society and economy since it was first discovered. Sugar has had a large impact on society and the economy that is not noticeable unless thoroughly studied. The following is an analysis of the work done by Sidney W. Mintz in his attempt to enlighten the "educated layperson".
By 700 A.D., it was seen that sugar was diffused to the Mediterranean region by Islamic expansion and trade as sucrose was viewed as an exotic spice and medicine (Nunn, Nathan). In 1452, Portuguese sugar production began on Madeira, an uninhabited island off the northwest coast of Africa. Indigenous peoples were the first workers brought to island of Madeira to work on the sugar mills, but the need for labor was too much. To get help with more labor, the enslaved African Americans were brought in and they became the main labor force for the sugar industry. By 1500, Madeira became the largest exporter of sugar in the world (Dunn, R.). With the success of the cash crop and the labor provided by the African Americans, sugar production was seen to have spread to other Atlantic islands; first it was the Canaries, then Santiago in the Cape Verde islands but these islands lacked the required rainfall for good cane culture. This is where the Portuguese, and then later the Spanish, Dutch, and English came to set their sights on other areas to continue this white gold sugar industry hoping to expand the production and gain
Sugar, like many other tradeable goods, was circulated through a variety of regions for over a thousand years. As trade and transportation created opportunities for more interactions between locations, sugar was introduced to places that it had been previously unknown. In the sixteenth century, Europe, specifically England, took a large interest in sugar, first serving as a luxury for the elite class but eventually evolving into a good available to all social classes. The high demand for sugar led to the expansion of sugar production, an increase in African slavery, and implemented a significant system of trade.
This increase in production caused a change at the consumption end. When sugar was first being produced it was seen as a luxury product only accessible to the rich, but then as its production increased and there was a surge amount in the market place its uses changed. It went from being a specialized product used for medicinal, ritual, or for display purposes to a common everyday food substitute. Now the working class people began more than ever to consume large quantities of sugar as a substitute to their calorie lacking diet. The production of sugar in the British West Indies was not able to keep pace with the demands from the mother country. When the supply from the British West Indies increased so did England’s demand for the crop. It seemed like from the middle of the eighteen century onward the islands were never able to produce more sugar than what was consumed by the people in the mother country. “English sugar consumption increased about four-fold in the last four decades of the eighteenth century, 1700-40, and more than doubled again from 1741-45 to 1771-75 (Mintz 1985) . As the English began to incorporate more amounts of sugar into their daily diets they began to find multiple uses of the commodity. Sugar soon developed into a stable product in the lives of people. With the increased use of sugar in multiple forms of consumption it changed from its previous classification as a spice to its own separate category. The use of this newly popular commodity did not lose any popularity as the years passed. Britain became a leading exporter of sugar crops into the world market, with majority of the supply going to feed their own peoples ravenous appetite. In 1800 British consumption of sugar had increased some 2,500 percent in...
Ever since my grandmother handed me her copy of Anne Frank’s diary during the summer of 2010, I was instantly hooked from just reading the first sentence of the prologue. It all started when my grandmother would just ask me if I happened to have any particular inspirational figures that I looked up to. Without even thinking, I immediately said my inspiration was my mother - just like any 10-year old girl would. Of course my mother still is an inspiring figure, but even 10-year old me noticed that I didn’t have a particular figure that I genuinely looked up to. After asking my grandmother what her inspiration was, she responded by handing me a brown book, titled “The Diary of Anne Frank”. Little did I know, that by reading this book I would come to realize the power of