Sugar Changed The World By Marc Aronson And Marina Budhos

Sugar has influenced the world immensely since ancient times. From negative health affects to Atlantic slave trade that took the lives from countless innocent Africans, the impact from the cultivation of sugar doesn’t seem to have an end. In Sugar Changed the World, the two authors, Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos compose a personal story that portrays a timeline on the effects sugar has had on society all thorough history. Throughout the text, the authors respond to conflicting ideas and make connections to form a main idea that sugar production has had positive and negative impacts on the world.

In Sugar Changed the World, the authors inform the reader about sugar's positive and negative impact on the world, developing the central idea. “Sugar plantations were Hell because of the endless labor they demanded from slaves. They were

One example is the authors’ description of trade around the world. “Textbooks talk about the Triangle Trade: Ships set out from Europe carrying fabrics, clothes and simple manufactured goods to Africa. (37)” The authors are quick to address the confusion of the dominant trade framework, including sugar, being a simple system. The authors continue in contradicting this idea of a three-way, triangular trade system by calling it “misleading”. They explain how the trading system has many more factors and is much more than just a “triangle”. “What we call a triangle was really as round as the globe. (37)” The authors give direct evidence of a much more complicated trading system involving many countries. The triangle trade was just a factor in a much larger picture. Sugar trade involved a complex connection of goods worldwide that influenced a large number of people. In the text, both authors directly confront conflicting viewpoints and support their own viewpoint with direct evidence and