During the period 1640-1690 the expansion of the Caribbean economy was made possible by the expansion of European colonization across the Atlantic. However Africans were captured for the slave trade to support the development of the sugar industry, through slave labor to produce sugar cane. (Grouchier and Walton, 1629: 418-420). The scramble for Africa led to gender inequality within African society, the European invasion into the Atlantic introduced some political conflicts regarding the demand for economic control and conquest of the Atlantic. (Hornsby and Hermann, 2005: 127). However, the sugar plantation was supported jointly by cooperative finance and the state. (Stuart, 2004: 3-8). However, according to Richards, most sugar plantation owners should anticipate that their international investors would want a large amount of raw sugar. (Richard, 1974: 38). however, the attitude of the plantation owners was partly due to greater "optimism" and partly to the difficulty of international communications in the 17th century. This shared attitude led many farmers to debt prison, while some prospered greatly. (Mints, 44-45). However, this essay will pay attention to the economic, political and social consequences of the sugar revolution in the Caribbean. It has been argued that the sugar revolution dramatically affected the Caribbean as a result of the sugar revolution; economically there was a labor problem caused by the transition from tobacco to sugar. “The production of sugar cultivation was very necessary for some workers to practice manual labor.” (Son of Galen, 1989: 112). There were people trying to convince the workers like the Spaniards who tried to bring the Arawak to...... middle of paper...... Cambridge University press.Hornsby, S & Hermann, M. 2005. British Atlantic American Frontier: Spaces of Power in Early British America. New Earth University Press. Cesar J, Ayala. 1999. American Sugar Kingdom. The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean. University of North Carolina Press.Harold A. Crouch. 1985. Economic Change, Social Structure, and Political Systems in Southeast Asia: Development of the Philippines Compared to Other Asian Countries. Institute for Southeast Asian Studies Grouchier, C & Walton, L. 2013. The Maritime World: The World of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean. Vol 2. London and New York. The Impacts of the Sugar Revolution www.studymode.com/essays/Sugar-Revolution-879265.html {Accessed: 8 April 2014} Social and Political Impacts of the Sugar Revolution {Accessed: 8 April 2014} www .studymode.com/essays /Effects-Of-Sugar-Revolution... •