If you knew something was

produced with something

like slave labor, would you

still buy it? Is the buyer

responsible for the

treatment of the slaves if

he or she buys things

made by the slaves?

Students will be

able to analyze

pictures and

original source

documents to

create an

explanation of

how sugar

plantations

worked

Short essay –how has “The Rains” worked for you as a learning tool?

It comes from sugar

cane or sugar beets

This is sugar cane

The sugar is in the

stalk

A large farm

Grows just one crop

Tea, sugar, cotton,

rice, tobacco,

cotton, rubber,

indigo are all grown

on plantations

Labor intensive

The higher the

demand the higher

the price

Sugar was as much

as 45 dollars a

pound

A 5 pound bag

would have cost you

$225

This scene depicts Voltaire's Candideand Cacambomeeting a maimed slave near Suriname. The caption says, "It is at this price that you eat sugar in Europe". The slave that utters the remark has had his hand cut off for getting a finger stuck in a millstone and his leg removed for trying to run away.

Sugar plantations

Slavery ended in

Brazil in 1888

More Africans

imported to Brazil

than any other

part of the new

world

Read

sections on

sugar

plantations

Finish

Fridays

readings

Finish

class

work

Why is a

sugar

plantation

so tough

to work

on?