Hist
104, Lecture 07:
New World Economies: Sugar and the Atlantic Slave Trade
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“I
do not know if coffee and sugar are essential to the happiness of
Europe, but I know well that these two products have accounted for
the unhappiness of two great regions of the world: America has been
depopulated so as to have land on which to plant them; Africa has
been depopulated so as to have the people to cultivate them.”
— J.H. Bernardin de Saint Pierre (1773)
1. The
Economic Logic of an Immoral Trade
a. Why
in America and not in Africa?
b. Parts to an Answer
c. The Heart of the Answer
2.
Sugar Rush: The Plantation System in World Historical Context
a.
Model mercantilism
b. Producing consumption, consuming production
c. The plantation phenomenon as (agro-)industrial revolution?
3. Anatomy
of a Sugar Plantation
a.
The land
b. The structures
c. The labor
4.
The Winners and Losers
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