Sukkerproduktion i Dansk Vestindien
Sukkerproduktion i Dansk Vestindien, nu de Amerikanske Jomfruøer, var en vigtig del af øernes økonomi i over 200 år.[1] Længe før øerne blev en del af USA i 1917, benyttede Danmark sig af øerne, særligt Sankt Croix, til dyrkning af sukkerrør. Det begyndte i starten af 1700-tallet og i 1800 blev der dyrket sukkerrør på over 30.000 hektar,[1] hvilket var med til at give Sankt Croix navnet "Vestindiens Have".[2][3] Den sidste sukkerfabrik på øen lukkede i 1966.
Referencer
- ^ a b Shaw, Earl B. (1933). "St.Croix:A Marginal Sugar-Producing Island". Geographical Review. American Geographical Society. 23 (3): 414-422. doi:10.2307/209627. JSTOR 209627.
- ^ U.S. Virgin Islands: a guide to national parklands in the United States Virgin Islands. Volume 157 of National Park handbooks series, United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications, Government Printing Office. 2001. s. 88. ISBN 0-912627-68-9.
- ^ Schulterbrandt, Gail (oktober 2005). "Bay Rum:A Niche of Distinction in VI History". St. John Historical Society. Hentet 6. november 2010.
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Artist's impression of a typical sugar habitation in the 18th century, engraved by Robert Bénard, to illustrate the article devoted to the colonial "sugar factory", written by Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Romain, for the Encyclopedia by Diderot and d'Alembert. A habitation is a plantation estate in French colonies.
Image content: We can see at the top right the master's house, located high up and dominating all the facilities. Below are the negro huts, organized around rectilinear axes, the famous “rue cases-nègres”. On the left of the image are the buildings dedicated to sugar production: water mill, connected to the sugar factory housing the boilers. Above, the purgery and the oven are represented, buildings dedicated to the refining and drying of sugar. In the center of the image, we can see the "savannah", part of the uncultivated estate, in the foreground, and the cane fields in the background.
In this idealized representation of plantations, the forced labor of slaves is deliberately not shown. We can even see in the foreground a black slave sinning.