1. If you knew something was
produced with something
like slave labor, would you
still buy it? Is the buyer
responsible for the
treatment of the slaves if
he or she buys things
made by the slaves?

2.  Students will be
able to analyze
pictures and
original source
documents to
create an
explanation of
how sugar
plantations
worked

3. Short
essay –
how has
“The Rains”
worked for
you as a
learning
tool?

5.  It comes from sugar
cane or sugar beets
 This is sugar cane
 The sugar is in the
stalk

7.  A large farm
 Grows just one crop
 Tea, sugar, cotton,
rice, tobacco,
cotton, rubber,
indigo are all grown
on plantations
 Labor intensive

8.  The higher the
demand the higher
the price
 Sugar was as much
as 45 dollars a
pound
 A 5 pound bag
would have cost you
$225

12.  This scene depicts
Voltaire's Candide
and Cacambo
meeting a maimed
slave near
Suriname. The
caption says, "It is
at this price that you
eat sugar in
Europe". The slave
that utters the
remark has had his
hand cut off for
getting a finger
stuck in a millstone
and his leg removed
for trying to run
away.

14.  Sugar plantations
 Slavery ended in
Brazil in 1888
 More Africans
imported to Brazil
than any other
part of the new
world

15. Read
sections on
sugar
plantations
Finish
Fridays
readings

16. Finish
class
work

17. Why is a
sugar
plantation
so tough
to work
on?