Sugar Changed The World

By oliviarocks19

  • Where Sugar Cane Started: New Guinea, 8000-7000 B.C

    Where Sugar Cane Started: New Guinea, 8000-7000 B.C
    New Guinea, 9000-8000 B.C

  • Polynesians spread sugar cane to islands across the Pacific; Plant arrives in Hawii by 1100, 600-1100 A.D

    Polynesians spread sugar cane to islands across the Pacific; Plant arrives in Hawii by 1100, 600-1100 A.D

  • England Catches Onto The Sugar Craze: King Hnery III of England pays $450 for only three pounds of sugar , 1226

    England Catches Onto The Sugar Craze: King Hnery III of England pays $450 for only three pounds of sugar , 1226

  • Olaudah Equiano's autobiography is published, 1789

    Olaudah Equiano's autobiography is published, 1789
    He talks about the cruelty behind how sugar cane is processed into sugar crystals with the slave trade. Conditions on the plantations for slaves were brutal.

  • Saint Domingue (French side of Hispaniola) become's the world's wealthiest sugar colony with the use of sugar plantations and slavery

    Saint Domingue (French side of Hispaniola) become's the world's wealthiest sugar colony with the use of sugar plantations and slavery

  • The abolition of slavery begins starting in England, 1833, followed by France in 1794 until Napolean legalizes slavery again in 1802

    The abolition of slavery begins starting in England, 1833, followed by France in 1794 until Napolean legalizes slavery again in 1802

  • Colombus introduces sugar plants to Hispaniola,1493

    Colombus introduces sugar plants to Hispaniola,1493

  • United States continues in the abolition of slavery by making importion of slaves illegal, 1808

    United States continues in the abolition of slavery by making importion of slaves illegal, 1808

  • First sugar plantation in Hawaii, 1835

    First sugar plantation in Hawaii, 1835

  • Sucralose (Splenda) was invented; 1976