People in Britain were in involved in many ways, example of people who were directly involved are the workers in the plantation, brecause they are taking the goods out of the ship. The sailor is ordering the workers where to take the goods. The workers roll the barrel of sugar to the weighing scales. The weighing scales are there to show how much sugar there is in the bags boxes and barrels. However on the other hand people who worked indirectly or beyond the plantation were slaves whom delt with the sugar in the refinery. The slaves would cleanse the sugar from brown to pure white crystals, before the shop bought it. The shopkeepers would then sell it to the white rich people only because they were mostly the people who could afford the money and riches. Other people who sold it in their shops other people were the people were the makers of all products. Sugar was sent to the market, which would be sold or sent to the bank for money and profit. The profit from the work of the slaves was huge between £200 million and £300 million. This was used to build new factories in England!
Many people in Africa were also involved in the slave trade. Example the people who were directly involved were people like the sailors who branded the slaves. The black slave traders are hitting the new slaves with a cane and are torturing them! There are mostly black traders who is either resting or they are ordering the black slaves around. Threw is also a child who is looking at what all the people are doing. Most children died at the time because of the atmosphere. And most of the children who survived had to live differently to where their parents would be staying. One of the white slave traders is lying on a mat. By his side there is a table or it’s a stool& on it there is a book, which looks as though the white trader has been keeping records of what and who each slave, was. There is also a hole in the ground from which a black trader is drinking water. Nevertheless there were other people who weren’t involved directly. Some people example the captain would be involved. This is because the captain would be the one who bought all the saves from the countries to the docks of the places where they would have to go to. Another person would be the capturer, this is because they would be the ones who have taken the slaves from the docks of Africa and taken to the plantations. Similarly other people like theses would be involved.
In the West Indies people who were also involved were people such as the black slaves because they cut the sugar canes in the field. The overseer is quite an important person because he is watching everyone doing what he or she is meant to be doing. If they do not do the work they are set to do they will be given sever punishment. He might be ordering or shouting. He would be the only person there to keep all the slaves in control and keep the plantation busy and going. The other Black slaves load the sugar canes into the cart to take to the mill, but before this is done the women would bundle the canes of sugar and tie string or a rope around it.
Again other people like the owner of the plantation would be involved He would be someplace else where he had another main job and would be ordering people around. He would hold responsible certain slaves for the responsibilities of the jobs, which he has commanded to be done. Majority of the slaves would be taking the canes of sugars in to the mill and would be cleansing the brown sugar. The sugar would be refined to pure white sugar. The reason why they called it white gold and black misery is because the sugar is pure white and looks rich and the black misery is because the black people use to work for everything and they got nothing out of it. The black slave women would then boil the sugar. The white rich traders would hardly do anything. The cause of this was because the heat was very sever for them to handle and the heat from the sun would burn their skin, and by the black slaves doing all the hard work, the would not get burnt since there skins would naturally be black. Generally not many white slave traders thought themselves as big and all it of themselves. They would make the black slave traders do all the main work but at the same time they would do some work to example they would be doing and preparing all the paper work to export the goods.
I would therefore like to conclude my essay by saying this that what lay behind the horrors of the slave trade very miserable and disappointing. No one should have been treated the way the black African slaves were treated. Imagine being in there position’s don’t even think that you would last for more than a week. I know that they were the ones that gave us what we have today and we should be glad that it was they and not we; I still think that the slaves were not treated equally. It was not there fault that they were black. All I think is that the white and Black traders were very greedy for the money and profit that they made. They were not interested in anything else other than that, which is quite sad and upsetting. Today we have got everything we own because of them. If it weren’t for them we would not have sugar or tobacco or cotton, which we wear. But they still should not have been treated differently to others.
