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Making Sugar Loaves
Image by The British Museum

Making Sugar Loaves

A late-16th century Flemish engraving showing the manufacture of sugar loaves on a colonial plantation. (British Museum, London)
Early Modern Sugar Processing Equipment
Image by Dan Lundberg

Early Modern Sugar Processing Equipment

Sugar processing display, Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam Open-Air Museum, Suriname.
Portuguese Brazil
Definition by Mark Cartwright

Portuguese Brazil

With a wealth of natural resources, Brazil was by far the most important colony in the Portuguese empire and was, at one time or another, the world’s leading producer of sugar, diamonds, and tobacco. Colonised from the 1530s, most settlements...
Stamp Act
Definition by Harrison W. Mark

Stamp Act

The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first direct tax imposed on the 13 American colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain. It required the colonists to pay a tax on all printed materials including newspapers, legal documents, magazines, and playing...
The Portuguese Colonization of Madeira
Article by Mark Cartwright

The Portuguese Colonization of Madeira

Madeira is a group of volcanic islands in the North Atlantic which were colonised by the Portuguese from 1420. The settlement and distribution of land rights on the uninhabited islands was a model the Portuguese Crown would copy in other...
The Portuguese Colonization of São Tomé and Principe
Article by Mark Cartwright

The Portuguese Colonization of São Tomé and Principe

São Tomé and Principe are islands located in the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa. They were uninhabited before being colonised by the Portuguese from 1486. So involved were they with the slave trade, they became known as the Slave Islands where...
Gaspee Affair
Definition by Harrison W. Mark

Gaspee Affair

The Gaspee Affair was an incident that occurred on 10 June 1772, when a group of American colonists from Rhode Island seized and burned the Royal Navy schooner HMS Gaspee after it had run aground. The affair contributed to the worsening of...
Townshend Acts
Definition by Harrison W. Mark

Townshend Acts

The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain between 1767 and 1768 to tax and regulate the Thirteen Colonies of North America. When the colonists considered the acts an abuse of power and protested them...
Origins of World Agriculture
Article by James Hancock

Origins of World Agriculture

Agriculture arose independently at several locations across the world, beginning about 12,000 years ago. The first crops and livestock were domesticated in six rather diffuse areas including the Near East, China, Southeast Asia, and Africa...
The History of Champagne
Article by Mark Cartwright

The History of Champagne

Wine has been made for over 7,000 years, and effervescent wine for just as long since sealing wine before the fermentation is complete will naturally produce it. True sparkling wine, though, a wine that is clear from cloudy impurities, was...
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