Sugar plantations in the Caribbean
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Related e |
Featured: |
Sugar was the main crop produced on plantations throughout the Caribbean in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Most islands were covered with sugar cane fields, and mills for refining it. The main source of labor, until the abolition of chattel slavery, was enslaved Africans. After the abolition of slavery, indentured laborers from India, China, and Java migrated to the Caribbean to mostly work on the sugar plantations. These plantations produced 80 to 90 percent of the sugar consumed in Western Europe.
[edit]
See also
- Trapiche, a mill used for sugar cane
- Colonial molasses trade
- Casa-grande in Brazil
- Sugar production in the Danish West Indies
- Slavery in the British and French Caribbean
- Valle de los Ingenios - Valley of the Sugar Mills, Cuba
- Amazon rubber boom
- Coffee production in Brazil
- West India Interest
- London Society of West India Planters and Merchants
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Sugar plantations in the Caribbean" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.