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If you knew something was
produced with something
like slave labor, would you
still buy it? Is the buyer
responsible for the
treatment of the slaves if
he or she buys things
made by the slaves?
Students will be
able to analyze
pictures and
original source
documents to
create an
explanation of
how sugar
plantations
worked
Short essay –how has “The Rains” worked for you as a learning tool?
It comes from sugar
cane or sugar beets
This is sugar cane
The sugar is in the
stalk
A large farm
Grows just one crop
Tea, sugar, cotton,
rice, tobacco,
cotton, rubber,
indigo are all grown
on plantations
Labor intensive
The higher the
demand the higher
the price
Sugar was as much
as 45 dollars a
pound
A 5 pound bag
would have cost you
$225
This scene depicts Voltaire's Candideand Cacambomeeting a maimed slave near Suriname. The caption says, "It is at this price that you eat sugar in Europe". The slave that utters the remark has had his hand cut off for getting a finger stuck in a millstone and his leg removed for trying to run away.
Sugar plantations
Slavery ended in
Brazil in 1888
More Africans
imported to Brazil
than any other
part of the new
world
Read
sections on
sugar
plantations
Finish
Fridays
readings
Finish
class
work
Why is a
sugar
plantation
so tough
to work
on?
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