Chapter 4 Sugar

First of all I apologize if this isn't very long. I had written this all out last night but when
I went to post my blog the website stopped working and erased all of my work except for the first sentence.
No matter how many stories I read about slavery it is always hard for me to believe that such an atrocious act could have been committed by humans. I would think that people would instantly know that it is wrong to enslave another person. Then again people debased the Africans to justify their actions of enslaving them. The slave owners actually proved themselves to be more inhumane than the enslaved themselves. It is hard to believe that the majority of people allowed slavery to continue and that slavery continues to ruin lives of people today.
I was shocked to see how much of the chapter was about slavery compared to the amount of material on sugar itself. The chapter was about the production of sugar and I was expecting it to go into much more detail about the line of production. I felt that the chapter should have spent more time on the places sugar traveled to and its effects on the people who encountered it. It is good that the chapter spent time talking about the slavery that produced the sugar because the enslaved people were the reason the world was able to experience sugar. I just wish that the chapter had gone through the effects sugar had in more detail.
It was interesting that one of the pieces of evidence was about the slave platers. It spoke sympathetically about the sugar plantation owners and their troubles as if the owners were the ones doing the hard labor, not the slaves. Overall I felt that this chapter was very informative and shocking.