How One Sweet Crop Enslaved 12 Million People

The History of Sugar: How One Sweet Crop Enslaved 12 Million People ✨   • Why France and Belgium Both Claim the Fren...   #sugar #foodhistory #fooddocumentary ◻️ Over roughly four centuries, more than twelve million Africans were captured, chained, and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the ones who survived the crossing were sent to grow a single crop. Not cotton, not tobacco, but sugar. The sweetness an ordinary person now stirs into their coffee without a thought was once paid for in an almost unimaginable amount of human suffering. There is no honest way to tell the story of sugar without sitting with that. But how did something so sweet end up costing so much? 🧠 SUBSCRIBE for more curious bites of food history! / @TheCuriousCucumber Thanks so much for watching!