#triangletrade

[iosghost]

Back to the genetic variety of England and the Picts, since we’re still stück at “migration issues”, even after centuries of West-initiated colonization. If people are being trafficked, who is driving everyone from A-B? Did all those “bushmen” Walk and swim the entire way?

[ishotthebreeze]

sugar hogsheads (plate x) from ten views in the island of antigua, william clark, 1823. (published by william clay, london, 1823). 

[dewberry1964]

#extracredit #summitjags #summithighschool #apworldhistory #slavetrade #triangletrade (at Mansfield Summit High School)

[swaggerhill-blog]

The Triangle Trade

Life will be a thrill when your needs are filled, if you want the skilled choose the Swaggerhill. ~Matthew Herschel Swaggerhill

     The Swaggerhill Shipbuilding Industry has been booming lately. We have created durable vessels out of sturdy and impeccable lumber. The ships have hulls made from Oak timber. The spars and masts are produced from tall pines. Each vessel has the finest woven sails that can withstand the storms at sea. Swaggerhill Ships will be used in the Triangle Trade. This is truly monumental for the family business. Molasses from the Caribbean is brought over to into New England and turned into rum. The exquisite rum is brought over into Africa and traded for slaves. New England is tremendously continuing to thrive. 

[colonialcaribbean-blog]

In order to increase the profit from sugar production, English planters learned from the Portuguese to take certain sugar by-products-- skimmings and molasses-- and leave them to ferment. After distilling, these by-products became “a hott hellish and terrible liquor” now known as rum₃₁.

(Sugar Boiling House, Havana, Cuba 1851)

Barbados consumed North England’s surplus food and livestock while New England brought back tropical products like sugar, rum and molasses₃₂. By 1700, the total monetary value of sugar reaching England and Wales was double that of tobacco₃₃. This was the famous triangle trade: finished goods were sold from Europe to Africa, slaves from Africa to the Americas, and tropical commodities (especially sugar) to Europe₃₄. After 1660, England’s sugar imports always exceeded its combined imports of all other colonial produce, paralleled by the steady expansion of plantation production, followed by more plantations in old and new colonies.

Prior to the emergence of the mass sugar market, sugar served as a medicine, spice and decorative display. After 1750, “the poorest English farm labourer’s wife took sugar in her tea”₃₅. By 1675, 400 English vessels with average 150 ton cargoes carried sugar to England₃₆. Having cavity-blackened teeth became a power symbol in England₃₇. Britain’s openness to transcontinental trade provided them with tropical products from the Caribbean as well as economic security and colonial allies₃₈.

(Sugar Island, 1775)

And even today, a favorite West Indies product in America:

[cynicalfilibuster-blog]

the triangle trade

why did we stop using the triangle trade. it was very good for making da moneez. i bet if we elect Donald J. Trump for prez we will be rollin’ in de do .

president Donald J. Trump has my vote.

rawr XDDDDddddddddddd

[foodorthoughts]

#LateGram from yesterday. Finally checked out the #KaraWalker x @creativetimenyc situation. One of the sculptures had a trail of molasses behind it. Was molasses a symbol for blood? #Sugar #foodorthoughts #KaraWalkerDomino #BlackArt #Art #StartAConversation #TriangleTrade #ThinkOnIt