Essays on Sugar Trade

Though seemingly unrelated and irrelevant to each other, economic interactions between global and regional dynamics have greatly changed nearly every nation in our world. The Latin America and Caribbean region in particular has experienced the great strength of these forces, especially in driving environmental change....

Affluent Europeans bought sugar from local merchants, the demand for sugar so high that sugarcane growers were in need of more laborers to tend the crops. This demand caused the slave trade, originating in Africa, to expand, bringing slaves to the Americas to work the...

What economic and intellectual factors promoted US imperialism in the late nineteenth century? In the Late nineteenth century the American industry was booming and the country was expanding and becoming more urbanized. Many American leaders pushed for United States imperialism for various economic, political and...

Abstract The little bowl of sugar on our table is often something we take for granted. The history of sugar is one of violence, greed, and oppression. Through the triangular trade between Africa, Europe, and the Americas starting in the 1600’s, it can be argued...