Sugar and Slavery

         There is a lot that took place in this chapter. What makes me angry is that in the 1600s it was a more profit-based market. Meaning people produce what they don't get to consume. I think they have a right to consume anything they want to, no matter if they made it or not. I also found the story of how  sugar became popular and introduced very interesting. According to the reading sugar was first encountered by greek conquerers in North-western India around the fourth century B.C.E. I feel like if sugar was never discovered we would not have a lot of the things we have today such as cookies, deserts, baked goods, and all sorts of food. Also the story of Olaudah Equiano was very sad. How all he talked about was seeing land, and then when he finally got there all he could think about were the chains that kept his freedom locked away from him. He prayed to god to just kill him because he could not take much more of the treatment. Along with the horrible conditions on the ship, he was robbed of all his money. When the ship finally reached West India, the scorching weather was almost unbearable for Olaudah to handle. After all the hardship and adversity, his captain sold him to his very own brother-in-law and was treated very well from that point on. I was happy to read at the end of the chapter that the connection between sugar and slavery was broken in the nineteenth century. Also british slave trade came to an end in 1808 along with the slavery itself nationally in 1834.