Sugar, Intro and Chapter Seventeen

The piece on sugar was interesting because of the different ways sugar was moved around. It was made one way but exported many ways. They used slaves to do must of the work which is similar to how many other items are made or taken care of and then shipped all over the world. This article also had many different views on sugar. Some looked at sugar as something that is good for you regardless of the labor that went into it. Most of the rest looked at the all the labor that went into the making of sugar but in different ways. It also talked about the movement of sugar and slave trade related to sugar. found this interesting because I never fully knew all that went into the making of sugar. I am also sad that they used people to harvest and make sugar in the conditions that they had to make them.
Part Five Intro
The idea of Eurocentrism I found not as interesting as chapter seventeen. This was a little hard to read. What I did find interesting was how the different parts of africa were in war with other parts of the world and how it came out. Those different areas were either conquered by a different country or they defeated another country.
Chapter seventeen
I found this chapter to be the most interesting because of its connection to sugar and all of the different revolutions that went on during that time. I think the author did a good job comparing the revolutions and how they differed from each other. I also liked how he explained how those nations became independent. He explained very well the diffenecies between the differet classes by their names. The higher class people usually wore the "powdered wigs"(strayer pg.503)to look important. Anybody in the lower classes would say go see so and so because he knows more and can help you more then I can. The other thing that I found interesting was the Haitian Revolution. This is because it folloowed in the foot steps of the French Revoluton in a lot of ways. They were both violent coutries in their killing of the people who where sentenced to death. The other thing that I found intresting during this peroid of time was that the white class of people were divided into the "well to do" and the "poor whites."(stayer pg.507) This is something that I had never heard of before. I also was very interested in this chapter because of the "Abolition of Slavery" section. It was neat to read how slavery ended in some areas. Some countries found slavery to be moraly wrong. Even though the resons for their disguted differed they all agreed that it was wrong. Some dilikedc it for the reason of how the slaves were treated and others dis liked it because the slaves were sold all over for different resons. Some even say the slaves themselves helped to end slavery. Last but not least I enjoyed reading about the feminist movement began. It was interesting to read how women were able to start going to schhol, learn to read and most impotantly be able to vote. Some of these women went to extra lenghts to get these rights for theselves as well as other women as a whole. A lot of the women died for the right to be able to go to school or even to vote. They were that passionate about having the same rights as men. They did not want to be considered just housewifes that onlny did work at home. They wanted to be able to go out and get a job a still prove they can do the same things a man can do and still take care of their family.