consumption and power

sugar has become now so common it is hard to imagine life without it, says mintz (75). in the chapter consumption mintz mentions not only the commonness of sugar in daily life, but also other events such as the famine that struck england and how everyone turned to bread to survive. European families id not have enough money for anything else then bread and then came the plague decreasing the european population even further. but then everything got back to normal around the eighteenth century. the laboring class started using sugar because of the energy it provided and soon everyone was using sugar. Sugar was so common people became ignorant as to how it was made and the workers. the slaves the cut the sugar cane were sometimes displayed in painting wearing there cultural cloth but the truth is they actually worked in rags (78). even worst was joinville's description of where sugar comes from, he said people would cast a net on the nile and in the morning they would find spices of many kinds on them (80).