The Sugar Revolution: How Enslaved Labor Built Britain

The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History · Oct 10, 2026 · 8m · transcript

We trace the explosive transformation of the British Caribbean in the mid-seventeenth century, moving beyond the general horrors of the Middle Passage to examine the specific economic machinery that turned sugar from a luxury spice into a commodity fueling the Industrial Revolution. Lucas and Luna explore how the brutal efficiency of the plantation system, particularly in Barbados and Jamaica, relied on the constant replacement of enslaved laborers who were worked to death within years of arrival. We look at the legal frameworks like the Barbados Slave Code that codified this racialized…