Sugar and globalization

The Economist review of Parker's book, "The Sugar Barons," claims that modern globalization began with the sugar trade in the West Indies. A lot of people got very rich, but a lot died, too. In Kingston, Jamaica, 20 percent of the white population died each year from disease, mostly yellow fever. All this led to the triangle--sugar, rum and slaves. It was not a time in our history to make us proud.