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

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