The Sugar Trade: The Slave Trade

On any sizeable sugar plantation expensive goods and equipment were necessary if it was to produce effectively and therefore it was a substantial investment (Doc 6). Peter Macinnis refers to this need for considerable investment as the first curse of sugar; due to the fact that establishing a sugar plantation was an expensive endeavor only families that already had the means were able to do so (Doc 7). Without slaves the sugar industry would have failed, almost every aspect of the process of manufacturing sugar was done by slaves, as the demand rose so did the number of slaves, but there was a high price to pay if one was to acquire the amount of slaves necessary on a large plantation (Doc

Saint-Domingue produced over 60 percent of the world’s coffee and 40 percent of the world’s sugar. This made Saint-Domingue France’s most profitable plantation colony. To meet the growing needs of this plantation system, Saint-Domingue’s colonists continuously expanded the number of slaves. Thus, the colonial economy fueled the social imbalance that led to the revolution. The white planters who derived their wealth from the sale of sugar knew they were outnumbered by slaves by a factor of more than ten; they lived in fear of slave rebellion.

In addition, those kingdoms were provided with things like guns in exchange for slaves. This helped those kingdoms have more of a capability of waging war. At least in the short term, it helped the coastal kingdoms. Those kingdoms became richer and more powerful because they were able to get guns, money, and other things in exchange for the slaves. However, in the long term, these kingdoms were badly affected by the slave trade because it took millions of men and women in the prime of their lives, which disrupted both the cultures and economies of the African nations.

Slavery for both regions and time periods was used for the same reason: to make a person of higher status wealthier. Modern day slavery becomes a larger issue as modernization progresses rapidly in this technological world, since most sources of large companies’ demands come from slave labor. Therefore, what is regarded as beautiful fabric and a basic human necessity today may in reality be the masked up tears of an enslaved child. However, there are also solutions to stop the criminal acts of enslavement. The most effective solution to end modern day slavery is by spreading awareness to people who have the most power and influence regarding this issue: politicians and government officials (Bales).

Slavery in America How did slavery begin in America and how did it end? Introduction A journey about more land and the economy based upon profit were the two major reason slaves were brought to America. African slaves were useful, valuable and they were worth a lot of money. The reason that slaves were useful and valuable was because they were used as manual labor. The southern America needed slaves to work on large farm dealing with rice, tobacco, indigo, cotton, and sugar cane.

Indentured servitude was a form of cheap labor equal to that of slavery. In the 1800s and into the early 1900s, immigrants from the eastern world were hired into low paying jobs to pay their debt to the wealthy bby working on plantations in terrible working conditions. The people were to sign a contract that bound them to work for up to 15 hours a day for a number of years until their fee for traveling to the new world was paid. The majority of the people That were indentured servants were from India and other Eastern parts of Asia this was due to the spread of the Industrial Revolution brought about by Western Europe. Indentured servitude found it place in the New World due to the abolishment of slavery and they were in need of a new source of cheap labor.

Without slaves, Texas’ economy would experience a major downfall. As time went by, the number of slaves in Texas only grew. According to statistics from the Bureau of Census, the slave population drastically increased, in“ 1836: 5000 1850: 58,161 1860: 182,566” (Document A). After depending so much on slavery for labor, it would be extremely hard for Texas to be able to quit using it and still be able to balance their economy. States’ Rights was also a big part of Texas seceding.

One can see by looking at statistics that slavery is at an all time high across the world; many children and adults alike are contrived into different forms of slavery. Most of this concomitant slavery is focused in the United States, but it also happens in other countries such as Thailand and India. Modern day slavery has become a reliable source for get workers around the world, but that does the mean that it is the right way. By looking at the different types of modern day slavery, learning about why it is happening, and looking at ways to stop the issue, one will realize how important it is to put a stop to modern day slavery. One of the most important steps to terminating modern day slavery is learning about the many diversified business these people are working in.

Skilled slaves were more elite than house slaves. Since skilled slaves needed tools and spare parts they were able to travel which gave them a sense of freedom this frightened masters. Urban masters allowed slaves to purchase their freedom over a term of years. Urban slaves who bought their freedom typically continued to work in what they did as slaves. White southerners felt that African Americans would not give their full potential in labor unless they were threatened with beatings.

Britain bought India's natural resources, such as cotton, cheaply, and would then use their Industrial machines to make exceptional goods, which they sold back to the Indian people at a higher price (Doc 2).This was extremely profitable for the British (Imperialism in India). The modern British industries destroyed the previous cottage industries in India because goods were made faster and better in Europe (Doc 11). This also stopped the growth of new industries which could have lead to more jobs and a wealthier

This brings back the main idea because none of the sugar could have been produced without any of the labor. Labor is the beginning to this story of the Sugar Trade and without that chapter, it would be incomplete. England at the end of this all had more money coming in than out. The sugar plantations, owned by wealthy people, had to be built. And the building of the plantation cost a lot of money.

With slaves came the opportunity to work. With more hands that were not paid plantation owners only had more to gain as this went on through several states. Several slaves were sent in abundance to the West Indies to speed up the process of collecting sugar cane. This was extremely hard work for the slaves and only pushed the separation bar further apart. Along with Native Americans and slave women had no say over what went on in their lives a majority of the time.

Demand is a driving factor of any business or trade. Without it, a market could not be sustained. Documents 3,4, and 5 share important information about the demand in England. Demand was a driving factor of the sugar trade because of . Sugar’s addictive qualities had made people crave the drug-like substance after tasting it (Doc.

Next, when the North had more upper class people due to wealth, it caused the North and South to disagree with how money should be obtained. The South argued that slavery was the answer and the North argued that factories were what had to be done. In one of the documents, it said, “There were 22 million people in the North compared with only 9 million in the South” (Document 7). This means there was more money being made in the North due to more people working in factories versus money being made selling cotton produced by slaves on plantations. The disputes on money were a huge factor in causing the Civil War.

During this time, the railroad became a massive industry, not just for transportation, but also for production building of the railroads. Industrial workers were a major working force, however, with this boom, a few people came to hold a majority of the wealth while the masses lived in poverty. During this time, laws were severely needed to control the corrupt corporations that ignored the masses. The railroads spanned the whole continent, which lead the opening of settling west. When Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, only 35,000 miles of steam railways were contracted, but by 1900, there were 192,556 miles of railway.