Puts my cravings in perspective... "In school they call it the age of exploration, the search for territories and islands that would send Europeans all around the world. In reality it was, to no small degree, a hunt for fields where sugarcane would prosper....According to Trinidadian politician and historian Eric Williams, “Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.” Africans, in other words, were not enslaved because they were seen as inferior; they were seen as inferior to justify the enslavement required for the prosperity of the early sugar trade." ngm.nationalgeographic/2013/08/sugar/cohen-text
Posted on: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 03:28:24 +0000
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