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The Bitter Side of Sweet Barbados Sugar Economy: A Bitter Exploitation. The beginning of the "plantation system" reinvented the island's economy. Large estates owned by wealthy planters controlled the landscape, with enslaved Africans providing the labour required to sustain the requiring process of planting, harvesting, and processing sugarcane. This system generated immense wealth for the nest and strengthened its place as a key player in the Atlantic trade. But African slaves toiled in perilous conditions, and many died in the infamous Boiling room, as you will see next: The Boiling Process: A Lealthal Task Sugar production in the 17th and 18th centuries was  a perilous process. After gathering and crushing the sugarcane, its juice was boiled in huge cast iron kettles up until it turned into sugar. These pots, frequently arranged in a series called a"" train"" were heated up by blazing fires that enslaved Africans needed to stoke continuously. The...