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Sugar and the Haitian Revolution
Industrial agriculture allowed for the mass production and distribution of corn-based sweeteners. The productivity of sugar in colonial Haiti was a direct result of the violence meted out on the people who become Haitian. But the bill for these sins would eventually have to be paid. In 1791, after generations of death and misery, the Haitian people rose up and revolted.