As depicted from the case study, sugarcane was a major commodity, which facilitated slave trade during the colonial time. Sugarcane was used to manufacture a drink called the Kill-devil, which was better compared to the expensive bear and wine. This drink evolved during the colonial time and kept on changing names from Kill devil to Rumbullion based on the ingredients added to the canned sugar. The name Rumbullion was later shortened to Rum. During this colonial time, sugarcane planting was an important activity since sugar had several important uses. Sugarcane planting was a major factor that facilitated slave trade since the increase in demand of the rum meant that there was the need to plant more sugar. Therefore, this called for more slaves…
The painting, Cane Cutting Scene, and the poem “Sugar Cane”, from I is a Long Memoried Woman by Grace Nichols, were two completely separate works about the same thing. One, the poem talks about the life and death of the cane while the other, the painting, shows the labor and torture of the workers, both telling the story of sugar. The painting shows the grueling work put into raising sugar cane, as back then humans did not have machines to do dirty work. Slaves had to complete back breaking work of ripping up stalks in the hot sun, wheeling them away, and, as the painting describes, continuously repeat the tasks until the field was empty. The poem does not talk about the hard work of the laborers, it is about the hard work of the cane itself.…
During this time period goods such as coffee, tea, sugar, tobacco and cocoa all became incredibly popular and valued by the rich. Sugar especially was a luxury good introduced to western Asia and Europe during the Middle Ages. Sugar plantations were prominently created on the Persian Gulf and islands like Cyprus and Sicily. Sugar became so big due to the fact it grew in warm climates, needed a huge labor force for intensive care and was highly acclaimed and wanted all around the world. It connected every part and social status the world had to offer. For Europe, sugar…
Explore the history of the sweetener (when it was developed, its composition). Sucrose, according to our text, is composed of one glucose (the most common sugar molecule) molecule and one fructose (the sweetest natural sugar) molecule. The bond is called glycosidic linkage. Because of this mixture, Sucrose is known to be sweeter than lactose or maltose (the other 2 out of the 3 most common disaccharides, which is a carbohydrate compound consisting of 2 or more molecules joined together). The history of sucrose dates back to thousands and thousands of years ago when the sugar cane was discovered in the South Pacific, rumored specifically to have been found in New Guinea. Its molecular formula is C12H22O11. (taken from Wikipedia)…
In 1493, Christopher Columbus introduced cane sugar to the islands of the Caribbean. At that time, sugar was practically unknown to most people in Europe. However, it became so popular later in Europe. There are 3 factors that drove the sugar trade; the demand of sugar, the plantations, and the mercantilism…
Vision Australia will be hosting a special morning walk around Lake Wendouree on Sunday 18th October, informing the community of what life with vision impairment is like and how people who walk with canes get around. This walk is to raise awareness of the white cane and the positive means of independence and mobility it gives people who are blind or have low vision. International White Cane Day has been running for 50 years, spreading from the United States overseas.…
To start off, sugar was an easy way to become wealthy for producers. As said in Document 7A and 7B, after the first production of sugar from the West Indies, sugar easily grabbed the attention of many Englishmen. The Englishmen usually ran their plantations on their own such as, Charles Long, Robert Hibbert, William Beckford and John Gladstone are some examples of many men who owned their own Sugar Farms.…
From corn High- Fructose Corn Syrup is formed. High-fructose Corn syrup is now used in the products we see all over the home and grocery store. Farmers know that this is a guarantee profit for as much as they are able to distribute. Items all around us can be found to have High-Fructose Corn Syrup in them, from the most basic forms of food to the most complex of pesticides. Even more disturbing is how children are being affected by High-Fructose Corn Syrup while parents and professionals in the educational field never really know it especially the special needs students that are attempting to be mainstreamed. Children with special needs are having more challenges due to High Fructose Corn Syrup.…
Sugar was so high in consumer demand and addicting that in certain areas an average person would consume sixteen pounds a year. Evidence of this is shown in document G. The document conveys the annual per capita consumption ( in pounds ) from the year 1700 to the year 1770 in England. When analyzing document C, readers realize that the high amount of consumption is due to sugar’s highly addictive property. This document written by Benjamin Moseley, M.D. in the year 1800 states, “¬¬¬The increased consumption of sugar, and increasing demand for it, exceeded all comparison with any other article, used as an auxiliary, in food: for, such is the influence of sugar, that once touching the nerves of taste no person was ever known to have the power of relinquishing the desire for it.” As mentioned previously in the quote, sugar was used as a auxiliary in food, most likely as a sweetener, due to sugar’s sweet properties. Evidence is shown in document F when it reads, “Sugar as sweetener came to the force in connection with three other exotic imports – tea, coffee, and chocolate.” Document F, written by Sydney F. Mintz 1985, when further read mentions that all three of the tropical imports began as British competition, and the presence of them all (including sugar) affected their fate (to some extent). Meaning, that as long as sugar was used as a sweetener for these goods (and most likely others as well) and the goods were still in demand, then their success would be constant. In other words, they are proportional to one another, sugar and its complimentary goods were dependent on each other for their success.…
various forms, from pure cane sugar to high fructose corn syrup and ingredients that we are…
However, it has also been proven that sugar is the is one of the main culprits in the war on obesity, and over 30% of US citizens are obese As a consequence, there are different types of sugar that are better if used if not at all, the sugars that we should avoid completely are processed sugars. Professor Robert Lustig, professor of paediatric endocrinology at University of California, San Francisco, author of Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth About Sugar said, instead satisfying us, some scientists believe that fructose fools our brains into thinking we are not full, so we overeat, and what do scientists believe is the main culprit behind obesity Cancer Heart disease, and many other diseases. Another factor that should conjure us not to go the…
The first of the two factors, Sugar, is a sweet flavored substance that we use as food. It is an organic chemical that creates carbohydrates. Sugar is created by many different variety of plants. The two most common or influential are sugar cane and sugar beet, thought sugar cane is by far the most influential of the two. Sugar was a form of food but served not only that importance in our history. Sugar helped shape the world and where we are today as societies. From the writings of Sweetness and…
in 1493, Colon introduced Sugar cane plants to the Carribeans. Cristobal Colon knew that sugar and slave were inseperable and that would bring tremendous profit (wealth) from sugar.…
Sugar has become such a naturally common thing in our day to day lives, more specifically cane sugar. It’s used in our day to day lives, from our coffee’s and Kool Aid’s. To our cereals and pastries, but how did this sweet substance get into our pantries? The reason this substance got into our everyday homes is because of the sugar trade. What is the sugar trade? The sugar trade was the global trading of sugars from the West Indies to Britain, France and Brazil. Now the real question we should have is, “What drove the sugar trade?” my thesis after reading a series of documents on the sugar trade was the popular demand for it everywhere due to its addictive qualities and economic benefits.…
Ironically, sugar cane is not a plant native to the Americas. It is a perennial grass whose tropical species seems to have originated in New Guinea, and subtropical species in India. During the invasion of India in 326 B.C., Alexander the Great's soldiers became the first Europeans to see sugar cane; honey was the primary sweetener of the Western world at the time. Arab traders and Moorish conquerors spread the plant throughout the Mediterranean region, introducing it in Spain around 714 A.D.…