📺 Watch: BOB MARLEY and the WAILERS • Slave Driver (LIVE) • 1979 and the History of SUGAR in JAMAICA 🇯🇲

🔥'EAR ME NOW, children of de MOST HIGH JAH! Look close 'pon de SLAVE DRIVAH! Him love playin' wit' FIYAH! Always been such a wicked LIAR! But de tables turn back 'pon himself, mon... 'cause him still feedin' dat SWEET BURNIN' DESIRE... 🔥

📺 WATCH: A Brief History of Sugar From Slavery to Sweetener

A brief history of sugar from its first domestication in New Guinea, to its gradual migration to India and Southeast Asia. Sugar is a substance we all know, but most know little about.

White Gold, or sugar drove the massive transatlantic slave trade and shaped and influenced cultures throughout the world

The Sugar trade drove slavery, spurred the Atlantic economy in the 18th century, and sparked the transatlantic slave trade for nearly 300 years.

📺 WATCH: (2007 BBC Documentary) Big Spenders: The Beckford's and Slavery in Jamaica 

An example of the disturbing contrast between the lifestyles on a plantation system of atrocities inflicted upon Jamaican slaves which created the enormous wealth (and early systems of credit) amassed by morally corrupt and decadently twisted elite families who owned and (grossly mis-)managed sugar fields on the Island which were the 'lifeblood' of the British Empire at its peak.

(BBC) Jamaican sugar plantations and African slaves were the source of the Beckford family's wealth...

When William Beckford (1760-1844), the famous writer, collector and recluse, was just 10 years old he inherited one of the greatest individual fortunes in England to become, as Byron titled him, 'England’s wealthiest son'. 

How Beckford spent his wealth is well documented but what is less well known, perhaps, is the story behind the source of the family's fortune. In fact the wealth, that made the Beckford family a force to be reckoned with in 18th century politics and enabled the great Beckford collection to be formed, actually came from numerous sugar plantations in Jamaica and the hard labour of the African slaves who worked them. [More...]

📺 WATCH: Unfinished Business & The Old Corruption (Britain's Slave Trade Documentary PTS. 1&2) 

Unfinished Business looks at how Liverpool became the greatest slaving port in human history. 

This is the untold story of the greatest slaving nation in history. Up till now, Britain’s place in the history of slavery has been as the country that abolished the international slave trade.

Britain’s Slave Trade reveals the shameful truth behind this liberal facade, showing how the economic, social and cultural life of Britain would have been unrecognisable without slavery. Britain’s Slave Trade explains how a middling European power transformed itself into the ruler of the waves, tracing the impact this had on the British way of life and taking in the Industrial Revolution, the beginnings of Empire and the birth of modern racism along the way.

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When sugar ruled the world: Plantation slavery in the 18th c. Caribbean

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