Sugar — more than any other commodity — drove the transatlantic slave trade. The specific demand for sugar in European markets created the plantation system in the Caribbean and South America; the plantation system required enslaved African labour; the scale of enslaved African labour transport was determined by the scale of the sugar economy. Understanding the culinary history of sugar is inseparable from understanding the history of slavery.
Sugar's role in the slave trade and the culinary consequences.
AFRICA TO AMERICA — SLAVE TRADE CULINARY ROUTES: WA3 CONTINUATION