Barbados Sugar’s Unseen History
Boiling Down The Sweet: The Iron Heart of Barbados' Sugar Barbados Sugar Economy: A Tragic Success. The beginning of the "plantation system" changed the island's economy. Large estates owned by wealthy planters controlled the landscape, with oppressed Africans providing the labour required to sustain the requiring process of planting, harvesting, and processing sugarcane. This system generated tremendous wealth for the nest and solidified its location as a key player in the Atlantic trade. But African slaves toiled in perilous conditions, and many died in the infamous Boiling room, as you will see next: Boiling Sugar: A Grueling Job Making sugar in the 17th and 18th centuries was a perilous procedure. After gathering and crushing the sugarcane, its juice was boiled in huge cast iron kettles up until it took shape as sugar. These pots, frequently arranged in a series called a"" train"" were heated up by blazing fires that enslaved Africans needed...