Barbados Sugar’s Unseen History\ Sugar Iron and Fire
Sweet Taste Forged in Fire: Barbados Sugar-Boiling Legacy In 18th-century Barbados, cane sugar was made in cast-iron syrup kettles, a technique later embraced in the American South. Sugarcane was crushed using wind and animal-powered mills. The extracted juice was heated, clarified, and evaporated in a series of pots of decreasing size to produce crystallized sugar. Barbados Sugar Economy: A Bitter Success. The introduction of the "plantation system" changed the island's economy. Big estates owned by rich planters dominated the landscape, with oppressed Africans supplying the labour needed to sustain the requiring procedure of planting, harvesting, and processing sugarcane. This system created tremendous wealth for the colony and strengthened 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: The Boiling Process: A Lealthal Job Sugar ...