Sugar Trade Essay

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.

As stated before, one of my thesis was that one things that drove the sugar trade was its
In order to make more sugar you needed land and slaves because the english couldn’t make all of these demands for sugar by themselves. Once again going back to the documents I reviewed is that there is a whole process to making sugar and growing it. So not only were you making money from the sugar, but people were making money off of slave trading. In this document it says what slaves were traded for “These so necessary Negroe slaves are purchased in Africa by the English merchants with a great variety of woolen goods, bullets. Iron bars, copper bars, brass pans, British malt spirits, tallow, tobacco-pipes, Manchester goods, glass beads, some particular kinds of linens, ironmonger and cutlery ware, certain toys and some East Indian goods”. This quote was stated in “John Campbell, Candid and Impartial COnsiderations on the Nature of the Sugar Trade; the Comparative importance of the British and French Islands in the West Indies, 1763.” Which shows my point that the sugar trade was also bringing economic benefits to everybody at the time, Africa would in turn get goods for use and Europe would get slaves for