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Boiling Down The Sweet In 18th-century Barbados, sugar production depended on cast-iron syrup kettles, a technique later embraced in the American South. Sugarcane was squashed using wind and animal-powered mills. The drawn out juice was heated, clarified, and evaporated in a series of pots of reducing size to make crystallized sugar. Barbados Sugar Economy: A Bitter Exploitation. The start of the "plantation system" changed the island's economy. Large estates owned by wealthy planters controlled the landscape, with oppressed Africans offering the labour required to sustain the requiring procedure of planting, harvesting, and processing sugarcane. This system produced immense wealth for the nest and solidified its location as a key player in the Atlantic trade. But African slaves toiled in perilous conditions, and many died in the infamous Boiling room, as you will see next: Boiling Sugar: A Lealthal Task Making sugar in the 17th and 18th centuries w...