Chapter Four

Sweet Nexus: Sugar and the Origins of the Modern World
1600-1800
This makes the beginning of the connections between sugar and slaves. At that time sugar was becoming the biggest thing on the global market. More and more people had to have it. To them it was like an addiction or medicine. The more they wanted it, the more they had to have it. Sugar became something that everyone needed. The British empire ended the connection between the slaves and sugar in Jamaica and Barbados. While in other places Cuba and Brazil it continued. William Cooper wrote something I thought was interesting and made it seem like sugar was most important than anything else. Like without it what else is there?
"I pity them greatly, but I must be mum,
For how could we do without sugar and rum?
Especially sugar, so needful we see.
What, give up our desserts, our coffee and tea?" ~William Cooper