sugar barons
Sweetener industry tycoons
Sugar barons were wealthy planters who dominated the Caribbean and American South from the 17th through 19th centuries, amassing fortunes through slave labor on sugar plantations.
The term now applies to any powerful figures controlling sugar production or trade: The sugar barons of Hawaii shaped the islands' politics for generations.
It carries connotations of exploitative wealth built on harsh labor conditions.
- sugarcaneSucrose-yielding tropical grass
- cane fieldsAgricultural land growing sugarcane
- cash cropProduce grown for sale
- imperialismExtending dominion over others
- classGrouping by shared traits
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- rum historyrum, molasses, sugarcane, distillation, grog
- Sugar Coloniessugarcane, molasses, rum, plantation system, Jamaica
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Sugar harvest workers
indentured servants · plantation workers · slaves · field hands · bondsmen
sugar baronssmallholders
Farmers of modest plots
sharecroppers · tenant farmers · landless peasants · homesteaders · yeoman farmers
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Those opposing human bondage
emancipators · freedom fighters · Frederick Douglass · liberation movements · maroons
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