Sugar

Answers

Coke: 7
Orange juice: 6
Fat free yoghurt: 5
Baked beans: 5
2 spoons of ketchup: 2
Spag bol meal: 10

We take sugar for granted and it's all around us.

As one of the main exports from the transatlantic slave trade, access to sugar resulted from the land theft and genocide of the Taino and Arawak peoples, early inhabitants of the Caribbean. Humanity has paid a heavy price for sugar access, the enslavement and abuse of an estimated 4 million West and Central African people, and the indentured servitude of half a million Indian people.

The environment also suffered, the sugarcane industry caused biodiversity loss across most coastal regions of the Caribbean.

In the beginning of the 20th century, the first successful wave of decolonisation swept across the Caribbean. Led by African men and women, spiritual leadership and armed struggle brought national independence, which was supported by the United Nations, and some Western European abolitionist movements.

In the 21st century, the Caribbean now produces 1 % of global sugarcane, and nations are still in the diplomatic process to negotiate reparations for past harms, and to gain full sovereignty by removing the King as head of state.