ATDTDA (3) The way it happens, 91-96

[Dave Monroe]

--- Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:

> (A horribly large fraction of those went to the
> sugar islands of the West Indies, where mortality
> was so high that slave populations rarely
> maintained their numbers.)

Mintz, Sidney W.  Sweetness and Power:
   The Place of Sugar in Modern History.
   New York: Viking, 1985.

http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140092332,00.html

http://anthropology.jhu.edu/Sidney%20Mintz/

And see as well, e.g., ...

Sugar and Slavery: Molasses to Rum to Slaves 

http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_es_sugar.htm

The local art museum has one of those "Sugar Basins,
handsomely labeled in Gold Letters: 'East India Sugar
not made by Slaves,'" a la ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/abolition_tools_gallery_07.shtml

http://www.understandingslavery.com/learningresources/results/?viewDescription=true&id=3194

... though they don't note that "the advertisements
neglected to mention that the company used poorly
paid, overworked Javanese and Indian laborers in the
Far East to produce sugar," so ...


 
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