Dbq Sugar Analysis

The colonies didn't quite meet the required conditions for cane sugar to grow, but it seemed to work out. In document 2, it states the cane sugar needs at least 80-90 inches of rain water. How did they do this when Jamaica and Barbados did not meet the requirements in climate? Well, it is simple, and it appears that they would've had to water the canes in order for them to grow, and in Barbados, maybe they even mixed the soil. This most likely made the job

To begin with, England found an important cash crop in the Caribbean. Sugar cane was introduced to the tropical environment of the Caribbean after Christopher Columbus landed in the New World. Sugar is native to southeastern Asia. Later, the Portuguese brought sugar to Brazil. Today Brazil is the lead producer of sugar.

During the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries the sugar trade was driven by high consumer demand, and the slave trade.

In doc. 1, a map is shown. This map shows all of the islands and larger land masses that are perfect for the growing of sugarcane in central America. Many countries decided to take advantage of this and made central America the capital of the sugar trade. Thousands of plantations took root and out of them came the flourishing sugar trade. Without the fertile land, the trade would never have started and because of the land, the sugar trade was driven forward to become an enormous industry. To continue, in document 2 it shows just how perfect the land was for growing sugar cane. The climates of two islands, Jamaica and Barbados are almost exactly alike to the ideal climate for growing. In that same region there were tens of more islands, all perfect for growing sugar. Without this perfect land and climate, the sugar trade would never have developed or driven forward and without the sugar trade, England would never have become the global empire that it

Although there are many more factors that could be taken into account I believe that the increase in demand for sugar, the low price of slaves in West Africa, and the amount of islands under British control with tropical weather are the main reasons why the sugar trade was

The sugar trade succeeded due to the increasing demand for the product, along with the advent of European colonization of the Caribbean, and the use of slavery as an efficient workforce. The rise in demand for sugar was partially a result of the addictive properties it had, which caused people to want more of it. The islands on which the Europeans were colonizing were ideal for the growth of cane sugar, the plant that is processed into the finished sugar product. With the use of slaves, the production of sugar was happening at a much quicker and cheaper rate than before, thus creating more sugar to supply the demand. During the sixteenth century, the Europeans colonized the Caribbean islands, which were perfect for running sugar plantations.

The international sugar trade (1500-present) had many effects on the global economy and society. It allowed and facilitated the mistreat of slaves based of the demand for sugar, as sugar was of such high demand that slaves would be murdered for not working hard enough, or killed by the machines they worked with. In contrast to this negative effect, sugar helped post trade and bolster some countries’ economies, such as Great Britain’s mercantile system and economy receiving a major boost because of sugar. Another positive effect of the sugar trade was the improved development of mechanics and technology, with machines being built to automate production of sugar, which helped towards the creation of automated factories and production lines.

Because of Britain’s colonies’ land and climates, they were more efficiently producing sugar. Britain had a perfect trade route for trading sugar, and had two particular places that were perfect for growing/making sugar (Doc 1), which were Jamaica and Barbados. Jamaica and Barbados had the perfect setting for sugar making. They had the correct temperature, latitude, soil, and rainfall amounts (Doc 2). The land was a sugar making machine. Because of Jamaica, Barbados, and their trading route, Britain had an advantage in the Sugar Trade. They could grow sugar in places where others couldn’t even get close to the right setting.

Also, this far way land allowed owners of the plantations to perform their business easily by having other people do the work for them. Document 7 lists four of the largest plantation owners of the Caribbean. In each description it states that the owners were absentees, meaning they indeed performed their business from England rather than at the site. The lands of the Caribbean allowed sugar

Sugar was one of the first global product, this and many other products were part of the trade system the triangle of trade. During the sugar trade, the Africans were treated unfairly however, the Europeans benefited, the economic system grew and sugar became more popular. When the African slaves were in America the slaves underwent brutal working conditions. Two sources corroborate this claim. According to document Henry Coor, “Even though I have to kill 30-40 negroes more per year, the higher production of sugar more than justifies the loss in life.”

The cause and effects of the Haitian Revolution have played, and continue to play, a major role in the history of the Caribbean. During the time of this rebellion, slavery was a large institution throughout the Caribbean. The success of the sugar and other plantations was based on the large slave labor forces. Without these forces, Saint Domingue, the island with the largest sugar production, and the rest of the Caribbean, would face the threat of losing a profitable industry.

I do not believe that slavery would have come to the new world without sugar. It is because of the introduction of sugar, and the plantation model that came with it, that the New World faced such economic prosperity. Sugar offered high profit, required copious amounts of labor, and was a cash crop, produce that many colonies sought to produce. It is through economic prosperity that sugar plantation and by extension, slavery, first appealed to colonizers.

As a demand for coffee, cocoa, and indigo plantation but mainly sugar due its profitability. In the 1740s, Saint Domingo became the main supplier of sugar. Sugar production depended on extensive manual labor provided by enslaved Africans. The slave population outnumbered and the threat of physical violence became the main way of control.

The slave trade was very important to the British economy. Without the slave trade, the triangular trade would not have taken place. This is because there would have been no reason to trade slaves from Africa for goods in the West Indies and the USA. Because there were so many slaves being traded, there was plenty of sugar being exported from the sugar plantations to Britain (3,750 tons in 1951 to 9,525 tons in 1669) due to the increase in labour. This trade of sugar had a big impact on the British economy. Because of the large quantities of sugar being produced by African slaves, sugar was able to become a staple food in Britain. “The poorest English farm labourer’s wife took sugar in her tea” which suggests that even the poorest of

However, it was undeniable that these conditions were significant in the success of producing this export. In document 6, Belgrove demonstrated that owning a plantation was a big deal, requiring the owner to obtain possession of a plethora of supplies and items, such as windmills, a boiling house, and the amount of slaves and animals necessary. All of these things were needed in order to run a fully-functioning plantation. The date that this document was made, 1755, indicates that it could be a credible source, for it was created in the middle of the diffusion of the sugar trading business. In document 7, Mintz states that mainly wealthy English families owned plantations. Men like Robert Hibbert and John Gladstone collected a great amount of wealth through the ownership of the large areas of land and through the amount of sugar produced by the African slaves (Doc. 7). This denotes the view that an effective way to gain wealth was through the ownership of the sugar plantations, thus encouraging others to do so as well; ultimately the desire for more wealth leads to an increase in the production of sugar and boosts the development of the sugar trade. However, Williams failed to mention how long it took these plantation owners to acquire that much wealth, which can cause the readers of this excerpt to think that these owners had instant success.