Barbados Sugar’s Unseen History\ Sugar Iron and Fire
Boiling Sugar: The Bitter Side of Sweet In 18th-century Barbados, sugar production counted on cast-iron syrup kettles, a method later adopted in the American South. Sugarcane was crushed utilizing wind and animal-powered mills. The extracted juice was boiled, clarified, and evaporated in a series of cast-iron pots of reducing size to create crystallized sugar. Barbados Sugar Economy: A Bitter Exploitation. The beginning of the "plantation system" revolutionized the island's economy. Large estates owned by rich planters controlled the landscape, with shackled Africans supplying the labour required to sustain the requiring process of planting, harvesting, and processing sugarcane. This system generated immense wealth for the nest and solidified its location as a key player in the Atlantic trade. But African slaves toiled in perilous conditions, and many died in the infamous Boiling room, as you will see next: The Hidden Dangers Behind Sugar In the gla...