The disastrous 17th century was a ugly environment for mankind, and the people who survived and prospered in it were correspondingly tough and ruthless. But if that brutality was suited to war, conquest, looting and slavery, it needed a particular set of technological demands to shape that mayhem into the global system linking finance the chattel slavery practiced in the West Indies.
Chapter 3: The Sugar Revolution
Chapter 3: The Sugar Revolution
Chapter 3: The Sugar Revolution
The disastrous 17th century was a ugly environment for mankind, and the people who survived and prospered in it were correspondingly tough and ruthless. But if that brutality was suited to war, conquest, looting and slavery, it needed a particular set of technological demands to shape that mayhem into the global system linking finance the chattel slavery practiced in the West Indies.