#stlucia — Public Fediverse posts

A #StLucia Times journalist Keryn Nelson explores #StKitts and #Nevis for the first time, discovering the stories woven into its landscapes. https://stluciatimes.com/183606/2026/09/three-days-in-st-kitts-and-nevis-and-countless-stories/

A #StLucia Times journalist Keryn Nelson explores #StKitts and #Nevis for the first time, discovering the stories woven into its landscapes. https://stluciatimes.com/183606/2026/09/three-days-in-st-kitts-and-nevis-and-countless-stories/

An #AdventCalendar
of meditative #music

Day 13 — St. Lucia’s Day

https://song.link/i/1727074469

#advent #christmas #groundhogchristmas #stlucia #stluciasday

In de #Zilverstand per miljoen inwoners is #Nederland #Australië gepasseert, maar werd het op het laatste moment ingehaald door #Bahrain. #Dominica stond van meet af aan bovenaan met #StLucia en #Grenada op 2 en 3. #NED werd mooi 7e. #USA kwam niet verder dan plek 46. #Rutte harkte met zijn #NAVO-landen ruim 50% van het zilverwerk naar binnen gevolgd door #VdLeyen (#EUR) met 29%. (Goud/Gold=2 Zilver/Silver, Brons/Bronze=0,5 Zr/Sr - C2 = Countries with Charles2 as Monarch)

https://archive.org/details/frenchsugar/

The French Sugar Business in the Eighteenth Century by Robert Louis Stein

Topics
#blackchattelslavery, #france, #frenchcolonialism, #frenchimperialism, #economics, #history, #Caribbean, #sugar, #sugarplantations, #Guadeloupe, #Haiti, #saintdomingue, #Martinique, #Tobago, #SaintLucia, #StLucia, #Guiana, #frenchGuyana, #Guyane, #sugarcane, #Antilles

Plantations in the French Antilles (principally in Haiti) became major sugar producers in the 18th century, and France became a main distributor to other European countries. Stein provides a clear and coherent (if sometimes repetitious) explanation of the three-pronged trade; ships from France carried slaves from Africa to the Antilles, and then returned to Europe with sugar. The slaves, most of whom died of disease and overwork, were victims of the French sugar trade.