Chapter 4 Sweet Nexus: Sugar and the Origins of the Modern World

In the old days, sugar was considered a drug because everyone wanted it and would do anything to get their hands on some sugar.  It started from South Asia to the Caribbean, but it was better known in China.  then they used enslaved african labor to work in the crops.  Sugar was and still is a big deal in the world, because it is in almost everything we use and eat as like corn.