#PlumbingTheParadoxes No. 37
The photo dump continues from the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. CW: enslavement. Note the mention of "unlimited wealth" in the "Sugar: Driver of the Slave Trade" installation.
The photo dump continues from the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. CW: enslavement. Note the mention of "unlimited wealth" in the "Sugar: Driver of the Slave Trade" installation.
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Life expectancy for an enslaved worker on early sugar plantations was 7 years. Mortality rates were 30%. The amount of the world's sugar produced by enslaved Africans in 1787 was 90 percent.
Ships carried 80,000 tons of sugar in 1720; 200,000 tons of sugar in 1770; and
175,000,000 tons of sugar in 1800.