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1 packet of sugar equals 1 hogshead or roughly 80,000 pounds of sugar.
1 packet of sugar equals 1 puncheon of rum which is produced from sugar.
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1 black strip of construction paper equals one slave: man, woman, or child.
1 tongue depressor equals 1 ton of wood.
Money in Pounds (£)
The Sugar Plantation Owners begin the simulation. They have 10 slaves,
represented by ten black strips of construction paper linked into a paper chain.
Sugar Planation Owners
New England Merchants
Begins with:
Begins with:
10 slaves
and
50 hogsheads of sugar
100 tons of wood
and
£550
African Traders
Begins with:
50 slaves
Sugar Planation Owners
Sell 50 hogsheads of sugar for
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£200 and 50 tons of wood to
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the New
England
Merchants
New England Merchants
African Traders
5 hogsheads of sugar are
damaged by water and
rats during the trip.
5 more hogsheads remain
in your city to be sold to
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people who live in North
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America. Take those 10
away. Send the remaining
40 hogsheads, now
process into rum to the
African Trader.
Trade slaves for rum at the
rate of 3 sugar puncheons
of rum for a man, 2
women,
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(Provide
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England
merchants with a strip of
black paper for each slave
traded.)
New England Merchants
Sugar Planation Owners
Take the slaves you just
purchased, staple the
strips of black paper into
links of a chain. Sail to the
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Islands.”
Before landing, remove 2
links; these slaves died on
the voyage as 10-20% of
the slaves routinely did.
Remove 3 links from your existing
chain. You need t replace at least
three slaves who have died this year
due to illness, exhaustion, and a
deadly accident at the mill. Also
remove your wood; this isn’t a
resource you use for trade, it is used
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up in producing sugar. If you
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slaves, you will be
able to produce more sugar and
molasses. You have £200. Buy
slaves from New England Merchants
at the rate of £30 for man, £20 for a
woman, and £10 for a child, leaving
£50 in cash.
Count your cash, total it, and report it to the simulation
coordinator.
Each group should have:
Sugar Planation Owners
14 slaves
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the wood
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and
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£50 in cash.
New England Merchants
African Traders
100 tons of wood,
10
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slaves,
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to
£150 from
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slave sales
just transacted.
31 slaves
40 hogsheads of sugar
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(most of the sugar has
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been converted to rum and
consumed)
Which group made the most cash?
Which group made the least cash?
Sugar Planation Owners
2 of your slaves have run away; your
remaining 12 slaves have produced
an average of 1 hogshead of sugar
each
(The sugar planters receive 12 packs
of sugar to trade.)
Trade all 12 of your hogsheads of
sugar to the New England Merchants
for 25 tons of wood to produce more
sugar and 3 more slaves.
Sugar Plantation Owners
Stop the Presses!
One of the two ships carrying sugar
to New England has been attacked
by privateers and the sugar is lost.
Now only 6 hogsheads of sugar
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make it to New England. You can
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no longer
buy any
slaves, but can
only afford 12 tons of wood (move
12 tongue depressors to the
Sugar Planters.)
New England Merchants
You refine the 6
hogsheads of sugar you
receive into puncheons of
rum to sell it to the African
Traders. Because no
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sugar was lost and rum is
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scarce; less rum is needed
to buy each slave. You
can purchase a slave for 1
puncheon this time
around.
African Trader
Trade slaves for rum at a rate
of one puncheon (sugar packet
turned rum) to slave. You
receive
6 sugar
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to
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New England Merchants
receive a strip of black paper
for each slave traded.
New England Merchants
Sugar Plantation Owners
Staple the strips of black paper
into links of a chain. Sail to the
“Sugar Islands.” You decided
to pack more slaves into the
ship, but
morehere
of them
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to died
(typically
30-50%
death-rates
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occurred on “tight-pack” slave
ships.) Remove 3 links… they
died en route.
Remove two links from your
chain. You need to replace at
least two slaves who have died
this year. If you purchase more
than two slaves, you will be
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molasses.
Buy slaves
from New England Merchants
at the rate of £30 for a man,
£20 for a woman, and £10 for a
child.
Count your cash, total it, and report it to the simulation
coordinator.
Each group should have:
Sugar Planation Owners
New England Merchants
African Traders
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15 slaves
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remaining
cash
totals.
63 tons of wood
10 slaves
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£200 from the slave sales
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just transacted in both
rounds.
25 slaves and
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more rum, but it is being
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consumed quickly.
Which group made the most cash?
Which group made the least cash?
Which resources last the longest, which the least?
Which are, as a result, more valuable in the short term
or long term?
Sugar Planation Owners
A drought shriveled the sugar
cane crop. You have no sugar
to trade, but need supplies.
Sell 4 slaves to the New
England Merchants for 13 tons
of wood to produce sugar with
your remaining slaves.
Sugar Plantation Owners
New England Merchants
Each remaining slave
produces, on average, half
a hogshead of sugar (you
have more women and
children) for a total crop of
5 hogsheads of sugar
(receive 5 sugar packets).
Sell to the New England
Merchants for 1 slave and
5 tons of wood.
Refine your 5 hogsheads
of sugar into rum. You can
also spend £50 and buy
additional rum from other
colonies (Massachusetts,
New York, Pennsylvania,
etc.)
Then ship all your rum- 15
manufactured and
purchased puncheons to
African Traders.
African Traders
Trade slaves at the rate of 3
puncheons of rum per man, 2
per women,
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to child.
For 15
puncheons
of rum, you
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can sell 3 men, 2 women and 3
children.
New England Merchants
Staple the strips of black paper
into links of a chain. Sail to the
Sugar Islands. You decided to
purchase few slaves and
provide them with slightly more
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space and exercise; historically
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death rates to
between 5-10%.
Remove one link; this slave
died on the voyage.
Sugar Plantation Owners
Remove two links from the chain.
You need to replace at least two
slaves who have died this year. If
you purchase more than two slaves,
you will be able to produce more
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to (the
sugar. This
year,here
your slaves
remaining
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2 hogsheads
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of sugar each. You don’t have any
cash, so need to buy slaves from
New England Merchants in sugar at
the rate of 3 hogsheads for a man, 2
for a woman, and one for a child.
Count your cash, total it, and report it to the simulation
coordinator.
Each group should have:
Sugar Planation Owners
New England Merchants
African Traders
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16 slaves
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remaining
cash
totals.
45 tons of wood
9 slaves
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£150 from the slave sales just
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transacted
in previous
17 slaves and
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a little rum, but it is being
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consumed quickly.
Which group made the most cash?
Which group made the least cash?
Will it be possible to continue this simulation, or has any group gone
bankrupt?
What other possible risks, natural disasters, good luck, or good
planning could factor into the success or failure of these various
groups?
Who profited most from the Triangular Trade?
Was it possible for the colonial sugar industry to survive without slave
labor?
Was it possible for the Triangular Trade to survive without sugar?
How did sugar change the world?
Sugar and Slavery: Diagramming the Triangular Trade
Sugar Planation
Owners
Start of Simulation
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
End of Simulation
• 50 hogshead of sugar
• 10 slaves
New England
Merchants
• 100 tons of wood
• £550
African Traders
• 50 slaves
Sugar and Slavery: Diagramming the Triangle Trade
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