“On cotton plantations, enslaved people were worked brutally — but most survived long enough to have families. On sugar plantations, the average life expectancy after arrival was seven years. The harvest season ran 18 hours a day. The boiling houses reached temperatures that melted skin on contact. Limbs were lost in crushing mills weekly. Owners calculated that it was cheaper to work a person to death and buy a replacement than to keep them alive. Sugar didn’t just use slavery. It consumed human beings as raw material. And it built more European wealth than cotton ever did
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