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Freedom! is a 1992 educational video game for the Apple II developed and published by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC). Based on similar gameplay from MECC's earlier The Oregon Trail, the player assumes the role of a runaway slave in the antebellum period of American history who is trying to reach the North through the Underground Railroad.
In New York, a supportive article in Freedom's Journal calculated for its readers that, given typical free Negro consumption of sugar, if 25 black people purchased sugar from slaveholders, then one slave was required to sustain the flow. New York City's small population of African Americans was said to require for their sugar the labor of 50 ...
Thralled is a side-scrolling platform and puzzle game [1] where the player-character is a runaway slave mother escaping the Portuguese slave trade with her baby. [2] The runaway slave, Isaura, escapes from a sugarcane plantation in 18th-century Brazil to find her missing child. [ 3 ]
Playing History 2 - Slave Trade is a game developed and published by Serious Games Interactive, and released on September 13, 2013, for Windows and Mac OS X on the Steam platform. The game is intended to be an “ edutainment ” experience, teaching players about the Atlantic slave trade .
After the Sugar Act 1764 was instated, exports fell in the coming years, according to records. On the other hand, mainland rum production rose during those years. The Sugar Act 1764 was later repealed by the Revenue Act 1766, and a penny-per-gallon tax was placed on British and foreign molasses imports. This law marked the first large-scale ...
The most immediate impact on agriculture of the Haitian revolution was the rapid decline of sugar, produced from sugar cane, as Haiti's most important export and most valuable agricultural product. Prior to the revolution in 1791, Haiti's exports of sugar totaled almost 100 million pounds. By 1820, sugar exports were practically nil.
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[3] [4] These colonies, several of which were captured during the Western Design expedition between 1654-1660, provided an abundance of raw materials such as tobacco and cotton. However for many decades the top producing domestic item was sugar [5] with Jamaica as Britain's largest sugar-producing colony according to the University of Glasgow. [6]