Abstract Proceedings of IESMDT - 2021
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Leaving a bittersweet taste : classifying, cultivating and consuming sugar in seventeenth and eighteenth century British West Indian visual culture
This thesis explores visual representations of British West Indian sugar in relation to the African slave trade practiced during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. During this time, sugar played a vital role to the lives of both European and non-Europeans as it was a source of great wealth for many and became transformed into one of the most demanded and widely consumed commodity. From the earliest days of British colonization, the cultivation and production of sugar in the Caribbean has been inextricably linked with the trade in African slaves to provide free labor for plantation owners and planters. This thesis considers how European artists visually represented sugar in its various forms---as an object for botanical study, as landscape and as consumable commodity---and in so doing, constructed specific ideas about the African slave body and the use of African slave labor that reflected personal and imperial agendas and ideologies.
Sugar
17/09/2021
299
IESMDT297
IMPORTANT DAYS
Paper Submission Last Date
October 20th, 2024
Notification of Acceptance
November 7th, 2024
Camera Ready Paper Submission & Author's Registration
November 1st, 2024
Date of Conference
November 15th, 2024
Publication
January 30th, 2025