October 31, 2011If 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?

Objective:Students will be

able to analyze pictures and original source documents to create an explanation of how sugar plantations worked

Homework:

Short essay – how has “The Rains” worked for you as a learning tool?

Vocabulary - Diaspora. An involuntary scattering of a culture or people

Sugar

It comes from sugar cane or sugar beets

This is sugar cane

The sugar is in the stalk

Plantation

A large farm

Grows just one crop

Tea, sugar, cotton, rice, tobacco, cotton, rubber, indigo are all grown on plantations

Labor intensive

Supply and demand

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

Slavery in the Caribbean

This scene depicts Voltaire's Candide and Cacambo meeting 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.

Slavery in the Caribbean

Slavery in Brazil

Sugar plantations

Slavery ended in Brazil in 1888

More Africans imported to Brazil than any other part of the new world

Class work:

Read sections on sugar plantations

Finish Fridays readings

Homework:

Finish class work

Exit Ticket:

Why is a sugar plantation so tough to work on?