Barbados Molten Memories
Boiling Sugar: The Bitter Side of Sweet In 18th-century Barbados, cane sugar production counted on cast-iron syrup kettles, an approach later embraced in the American South. Sugarcane was crushed utilizing wind and animal-powered mills. The drawn out juice was heated up, clarified, and vaporized in a series of pots of reducing size to produce crystallized sugar. Barbados Sugar Economy: A Tragic Exploitation. The beginning of the "plantation system" reinvented the island's economy. Big estates owned by rich planters controlled the landscape, with shackled Africans offering the labour required to sustain the demanding process of planting, harvesting, and processing sugarcane. This system produced tremendous wealth for the nest and strengthened its place 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: The Boiling Process: A Grueling Job Making sugar in the days of col...