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A superb illustration of a sugar loaf and cutting tongs, found on the inn sign of an historic pub in Bristol, a port that prospered on both the Atlantic slave trade and slave-produced commodities such as cotton, cocoa, rum and sugar. Bristol became a centre of sugar production where many sugar houses were established to store and process imported sugar. This pub took its name from a nearby sugar refinery that was destroyed by fire in 1859. Fires were a common hazard for such buildings. Indeed, as a result of fires, Bristol lost no less than eleven sugar houses between 1670 and 1859. The subsequent high cost of fire insurance led to the founding of the Bristol Fire Office in 1718. This was absorbed into the Sun Fire Office by 1837. Consumption of sugar can be traced back to the late Saxon period though it was a luxurious commodity. By Elizabethan times, the best sugars were sourced from Madeira, Morocco and the Canaries. However, production spread to the Americas following its introduction by explorers like Columbus. The African slave trade led to intensive sugar production in the English Caribbean and by the 18th century sugar had become relatively cheap, wiping out earlier centres of production in Venice and Sicily. Barbados and Jamaica became the main sugar producing islands in the 18th century where it was said that the rule was one slave for every acre of sugar.
Date: 29-10-2005 Source: Kodak DC4800

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