Early sugar plantations as industrial factories. The origin—and the first hints at challenges—to the conventional story of race-based slavery in the Americas. New England emerges both as a conduit for British trade in the Atlantic & as the potential nexus of a new theology: Capitalism.

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EPISODE MENTIONS

Who: Benjamin Franklin, Captain John Smith, John Cotton, John Rolfe, John Winthrop, Max Weber, Puritans, Richard Lother, Robert Keayne, Thomas Hancock

What: Barbados Slave Rebellion (1692), Calvinism, Indentured Servants, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Muscovado Sugar, Protestantism, Slavery (general), Sugarcane, Sugarcane Mill/Processing, Virginia Company

Where: Barbados, Chesapeake Bay, Colonial Virginia, Jamaica, New England Colonies

Documents: "On the Just Price," "Advice to a Young Tradesmen"

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