The Modernity of Sugar Plantations

Sugar plantations could be considered as kind of like the world's first factories because the vast majority of slaves mostly are women. At the very bottom you have field workers a lot of women doing the actual tending to the crops but in the middle you have artisans carpenters and skilled laborers who actually have to process the sugar cane into something called sugar. The slave population reflects that division of labor so there's a specialized division of labor that exists within these slave plantations.