Week Two

Reading the handout "Sweet Mexus: Sugar and the Orgins of the Modern World" was an eye opening experience to know that something as simple as sugar was once upon a time in history a major factor in the mistreatment and was the justification for having slaves. Slavery and sugar were two of the main investments that people around the world wanted to part take. The reading states that at one point sugar was unknown to Europe and later with exploration of other countries, they were hooked and wanted more. Money was to be made, so mass production of sugar cane continued the high supply and demand for sugar. It was once a luxary and become a necessity, which explains the rapid demand for sugar and how sugar plantations evolved. It was an intresting reading and it explained how the time period of slavery had evolved.