How sugar was built on a global system of slavery | Featured Documentary

All Africans and Black People around the world need to learn about HAITI REVOLUTION

Al Jazeera should also make a documentary on the super wealth that gulf states have been making upon the blood, sweat and tear of south asian laborers, who are forced to work in slavery like conditions.

Imperialism has brought nothing but death, and destruction.

also tell about arab islamic slave trade

Thanks for tuning in. Sugar is sweet, seductive, addictive - but built on human suffering. This feature-length reveals how an enticing luxury became the engine of a global system powered by slavery, exploitation and environmental destruction, a legacy still shaping the world today. 👇We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.

It should be noted that 50 million people were kidnapped into slavery from Africa, but only 12 million survived to arrive in the Americas.

A chosen people have been persecuted throughout history, slavery, colonialism, neocolonialism etc. But we can't be broken 😊😊😊

Europe became wealthy exploiting different countries, some people complaining that why do they need to keep helping poor countries? Stupid. Learn history.

The tribal marks on the slave woman is recognizable. It is called the “Ilà Ọ̀yọ́”. The pictured slave woman was definitely Yorùbá. Sad!!!

We Black people have suffered a lot. When we look back and remember the past we ask God Why always us?😢😢

Thank you aljazeera for the nice research also folly bah for narrating well. You have really opened my eyes to what it cost to enjoy that spoon full of sugar. It's so unfortunate that even after 400 hundred years there are people who are exploited and yet we say slavery is an 'ancient ' thing.

What about cotton fields, tobacco fields, rubber plantations, etc . Why stick to sugar?

sugar is the most addictive and simultaneously the least regulated drug on the face of the earth. this is why i always say no sugar when i order coffee.

Haiti's crushing debt consumed 90% of their GDP for most of the 19th century . The old growth Mahogany and hard woods where denuded with the forests to sell to Europe for high end furniture. I think in the 1850s they refinanced with the for runner of Citi Bank . They debt wasn't paid until like 1948 . These money should be repaid along with reparations !

There are constantly people who think that a bad deed can be excused with another bad deed - NO IT CAN'T - A CRIME IS A CRIME

now you see why those wicked people doing everything for destroying Haiti 🇭🇹 to this day 😢

Outstanding Doc! Thanks so much. (By the way, Cristofol Columbus returned on behalf the king of Castille (or the hispanic crown),. Spain didn't exist back then)

Sad how Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 treat the Haitians 😢meanwhile they are one people just separated by language due to colonialism.

Very depressing to watch.

Don't forget about Louisiana 🙄💯. Frances, Spain, and United States exploited, colonized, and institutionalized us as well. Sugar Plantations still here, slavery never left, passive racism, generational trauma, dept, poverty, Authoritarianism, Narsasism, et cetera still here. While Northern White Urban Cities (New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington D.C, Boston, et cetera), both France and Spain still rich, developed, white-cebtered and efficient in education, and modernly efficient.