Sugar Consumption

 

"The figures...are still quite astounding."

Date
Amount of sugar shipped to UK
Increase
1800
245,000 tons
1830
572,000 tons
233%
1860
1,373,000 tons
233%
1890
6,000,000 tons
500%

"So the production of sugar continued to rise, and at a dizzying rate,"

p. 72

 

Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power, pp, 72-73.