SUGAR

Question 1

Name of Harrison article

Answer 1

Sugar and Strife: Europe and the Evolution of the Caribbean Sugar Industry

Question 2

Harrison S&S - “Sugar is the most notable addiction in history that killed not the _ but the _”

Answer 2

killed not the consumer but hte producer

Question 3

Harrison S&S - colonial legislation / refineries / taxation / all was geared to support small island producers -

Answer 3

no. opposite. meant to destroy them thru taxation.

Question 4

Harrison S&S - when freed populations in Jamaica began to get money, they -

Answer 4

also wanted to try sugar

Question 5

Harrison S&S - slave rebellion, therefore rising prices, therefore -

Answer 5

plantations move to SEA to lower the cost again

Question 6

Harrison S&S - Rebellion was the reason why the slave complex was allowed to collapse -

Answer 6

no. beet sugar was.

Question 7

Harrison S&S - what took over right after slavery?

Answer 7

Indentured workers (on promise of smallholdings)

Question 8

Harrison S&S - After slavery, Jamaica -

Answer 8

doubled-down on farming and focus on land - becoming “reconstituted peasants and rural proletariats” - and the Crown needed neither of these

Question 9

Harrison S&S - slavery persisted in -

Answer 9

Cuba - but industrialization began also

Question 10

Abbot - title?

Answer 10

Sugar: A Bittersweet History

Question 11

Abbot - black survival through song -

Answer 11

songs sounded “disgusting” to human ears

Question 12

Abbot - Why South America more slaves?

Answer 12

The Middle Path (faster than the Northern path)

Question 13

Abott - how did capitalism factor in to slavery in a brutal way?

Answer 13

Cheaper to buy new ones than old ones

Question 14

Abott - why cheaper slaves in S.America?

Answer 14

Middle Path faster

Question 15

Abott - cheaper slaves in S.Am =

Answer 15

more disposible

Question 16

Abott - slavery’s organizational structure was proto-

Answer 16

industrial technique / assembly line

Question 17

Abott - why was sugar work like an assembly line?

Answer 17

because refinement necessary

Question 18

Mintz - nickname?

Answer 18

father of food anthro

Question 19

Mintz - highschools teach ind revolution –

Answer 19

w/o talking about slavery

Question 20

Mintz - sugar was “____ food” for workers

Answer 20

drug

Question 21

Mintz - slaves and industrial workers are on a —

Answer 21

continuum

Question 22

Mintz - Global North increasingly –

Answer 22

incapable of self-sustenance

Question 23

Lecture - 3 intro points about sugar

Answer 23

1. no sugar w/o slavery 2. sugar was in everything in Euro 3. slavery continues in diaspora

Question 24

Lecture - what bankrolled the industrial revolution?

Answer 24

slavery

Question 25

Lecture - 2 other kinds of fetishism that isn’t commodity fetishism

Answer 25

fetishism of capitalism / fetishism of modernity

Question 26

Lecture - humans were the largest -

Answer 26

• sector