Question

Why is sugar the connection between slavery and freedom?

Answer 1

Answer:

Sugar was the connection, the tie, between slavery and freedom. In order to create sugar, Europeans and colonists in the Americas destroyed Africans, turned them into objects. ... In fact, the global hunger for slave-grown sugar led directly to the end of slavery.

Explanation:

When the cane was ripe, the enslaved workers cut the sugar cane by hand with broad curved machetes and loaded the stems onto carts. Mills were slow and inefficient so during the harvesting season the slaves worked in the mill and boiling house 24 hours a day to process the crop.