The Sugar Cane Harvest

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1. THE SUGAR CANE HARVEST AP AFRAM KRISTIE M
2. CLAIM THE SUGAR CANE HARVEST IMPACTED AND SHAPED AFRICAN AMERICAN LABOR, CULTURE, AND ECONOMIC SYSTEM BECAUSE IT EXPLOITED THE ENSLAVED "WORKERS" FOR ANY KIND OF PROFIT, PUTTING THEM IN SOME OF THE HARSHEST WORKING CONDITIONS AND INFLUENCED THE WAYS OF RESISTANCE WORLDWIDE.
3. WHY THE SUGAR CANE HARVEST GENERATED SO MUCH WEALTH, THE SUGAR CANE HARVEST GENERATED MUCH WEALTH BECAUSE SUGAR ITSELF WAS ONE OF THE MOST PROFITABLE CASH CROPS IN THE WORLD, ESPECIALLY IN EUROPE. PLANTATION OWNERS ESPECIALLY PROFITTED OFF OF THIS BECAUSE OF THE FREE LABOR THEY HAD TO MAN THE FIELDS, WHICH CAME FROM THE SLAVES. PLANTATION OWNERS CREATED LARGE FARMS THAT DEPENDED ON THE ENSLAVED TO PLANT, WATER, CUT, AND PROCESS THE CROPS.
4. HOW IT LEAD TO RESISTANCE LIKE MOST OF THE ENSLAVED IN ANY ERA OR AREA, SOME FORM OF RESISTANCE WAS NOT THAT FAR BEHIND. BEING PUSHED INTO BRUTAL CONDITIONS, LONG HOURS, AND INHUMANE PUNISHMENTS CAUSED MANY TO ESCSPE, PLAN SABOTAGES, SLOWING DOWN WORK ON PURPOSE, WHILE SOME PARTICIPATED IN MORE VIOLENT UPRISINGS, LIKE HATIAN REVOLUTION
5. THIS IS A VISUAL SOURCE THAT SHOWS HOW SUGAR CANE SPRESD FROM ALL ACROSS THE WORLD LIKE NEW GUINEA AND INDIA TO THE AMERICAS. THIS SOURCE IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT DEMONSTRATES HOW IT BECAME A GLOBAL INDUSTRY. THIS SOURCE DEPICTS HOW EVEN WHEN THERE WAS MORE MODERN TECHNOLOGY AND NOT ALL WORK HAD TO BE HANDS ON ONLY, THEY WERE STILL FOR TO PREFORM INTENCE TECHNIQUES WHILE INSIDE BOILING HOT BUILDINGS.
6. COMPARE ALL SOURCES SHOW HOW THE SUGAR CANE INDUSTRY RELIED HEAVILY ON ENSLAVED AFRICAN LABOR THE BOILING HOUSE IMAGE COMPARE WITH THE SUGAR CANE FIELD BOTH PROVE JUST HOW DANGEROUS WORKING JUST TO PRODUCE SUGAR CANE ALL SOURCES SHOW HOW THE SUGAR CANE INDUSTRY RELIED HEAVILY ON ENSLAVED AFRICAN LABOR
7. SOURCES https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/ exhibitions/on-the-water/online/living- atlantic-world/new-tastes-new- trades/sugar-trade?\ https://www.worldhistory.org/article/178 4/sugar--the-rise-of-the-plantation- system/? https://www.britannica.com/topic/Haiti an-Revolution "CUTTING THE SUGAR-CANE, ON DELAPS ESTATE, ANTIGUA," ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN LONDON IN 1823 AS PART OF A SERIES CALLED TEN VIEWS IN THE ISLAND OF ANTIGUA BY WILLIAM CLARK HAITI: SLAVE REVOLT, 1791. THE 1791 SLAVE REVOLT AGAINST PLANTATION OWNERS AND THEIR FAMILIES IN THE THEN- FRENCH COLONY OF SAINT DOMINGUE (HAITI), HISPANIOLA. ENGRAVING FROM A CONTEMPORARY GERMAN REPORT ON THE UPRISING. WILLIAM CLARK, ‘INTERIOR OF A [SUGAR] BOILING HOUSE,’ TEN VIEWS IN THE ISLAND OF ANTIGUA… (LONDON, 1823). COURTESY OF THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY AT BROWN UNIVERSITY.