A200 Block 4 Sugar Dynesty Flashcards
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Slaves
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Workhorses, brutalised, factory system first used in Jamaica, slave scrambles, ones not bought thrown out to die or starve
Cane = fuel, sugar, rum, slave food, fuels imperial economy
Fonthill Beckford inherits 22 plantations, Vathek the sultan and his tower
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Beckfords
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17th century opportunists arrive 1660 ruthless, unscrupulous and violent murdered the Judge advocate
William Beckford of Somerly the planter, victim of the colonial debt act, is made bankrupt by over borrowing
William Beckford of Fonthill the playboy. Homosexual, defrauded by his lawyer Wildman
