My favorite part about my art history class is going to your videos and hearing that sick piano intro

Wonderful video. Thank you for this and all the education you spread!! ♡♡

Thank you for making/sharing!

Sugar has been an ongoing issue for me, since childhood. I'm sure it's been a problem for my family long before that, though. I'm surprised to hear its origins! I always thought of sugar cane in the Caribbean, so that detail about India was a mind blown moment. Another happened at the end when the process of creating silverware was not only detailed (which I always enjoy hearing about) but demonstrated! I'm glad people are more aware of sugar's bittersweet truths - past and present.

Thanks for putting this together

While researching my family tree, I discovered one person who encapsulates the good and the bad of doing genealogy. My 8th great-grandfather was a New England sea captain who had the interesting story of having his ship captured by pirates in 1717 while sailing from Barbados to Boston. I then looked further into it and found his testimony on his case to a council in Portsmith, NH, in which he told exactly what the pirates took. “Forty hogsheads of rum, several barrels of sugar, and a negro man.” All three were cargo on his ship- as the book’s author where I found this account pointed out, just about every New England sea captain helmed a slave ship at some point in his career in the 17th and 18th centuries. Slavery really is the ugly side of American history and pops up in unexpected places.

I had this as a project, thanks for getting me an A!!

I wouldn't be an artist without smarthistory showing me what it means to appreciate this stuff

Education basead on museum itens DONE RIGHT. Loved it.

love it. we use coconut sugar here in our province.

A fine and very useful video! It would be nice to add where the silver probably came from.

The video is great but the closed caption labels Beth as Brandi and Brandi as Beth

Check out the brilliant song "Molasses to Rum" from the musical "1776."

Good video but it's so quiet... or is it just me?

I love Smarthistory and have learned so much from their videos. This is the first one that disappointed me. The narrative is disjointed, confusing, superficial. The triangle trade is a major aspect of American history. Telling this story through a work of art is a great idea, but you can do a better job than this.

Isn’t this from Khan Academy?

If Columbus thought he was going to India, and he knew sugar came from India why did he bring a sugar plant?