Curaçao                                        Barbados

Sweet Power: Sugar, Empires, and Slaves in the Caribbean
18 May - 7 June 2008
Curaçao, Barbados
Truman State University

Course Description
Sweet Power was a three-week, six-credit, Study Abroad course.  The class took place in Curaçao (Dutch slave trade), and Barbados (English sugar plantation system).  The Caribbean is an amalgam of five continents:  Africa, Europe, North America, South America, and Asia.  It is an archipelago of the world’s cultures, mixed and remixed by time, economics, and power.  Studying the historic and contemporary Caribbean is a route toward greater understanding of world history.