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The Leeward Islands Sugar Revolution
This episode explores how Barbados became the laboratory for the Atlantic slave system, transforming from a tobacco colony to a sugar powerhouse under Dutch Sephardic influence. We examine Peter Goring’s role in establishing the plantation economy and the legal frameworks that dehumanized enslaved people, including the Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes. Lucas and Luna discuss the technological shift to mills, the production of molasses and rum, and how Barbadian models were exported to Jamaica and other islands, creating a brutal but profitable empire built on chattel…
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