User:Amsearss/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Sugar industry


 * Article Evaluation
 * The key problem that I have with this article as of right now, is the fact that it doesn’t mention and/or reference sugar plantations that would have started the economical boom of the sugar industry. It’s more so modernized and does not cover the 18th and 17th century of sugar plantations in the Caribbean and other tropical islands. The fact that everything is so modern on the page goes to show that more research needs to go into why the sugar industry was able to develop into what it is today. I also think it would be nice to add why the sugar industry started to boom when it did and who was truly responsible for starting it.


 * Sources
 * https://eh.net/book_reviews/the-sugar-industry-and-the-abolition-of-the-slave-trade-1775-1810/ https://books.google.com/books?id=zf-dCwAAQBAJ&dq=slavery+and+sugar&lr= https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=QUV98bwrqscC&oi=fnd&pg=PA7&dq=slavery+and+sugar&ots=JhCF7LiYJt&sig=XFOtrwT9i_iDkm3K_3uW-QYe-Dc#v=onepage&q=slavery%20and%20sugar&f=false

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Independence of Haiti


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article was a little bit better while evaluating in the sense that it gave a good chronological background for the wars that were involved in the Haitian revolution. However, what it really failed to do was touch on the aspect of France at the time and how much control they had over Haiti and their revolution in terms of making and annulling laws that would harm them. That, to me, should be added in right away as in order to understand the independence of Haiti you have to understand what was preventing it in the first place. Also, the author came in with an unbiased view which was good and made it a breeze to read. But more background information definitely needs to be placed in for the uprisings and what the French were or were not doing at the time.


 * Sources
 * https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Concise_History_of_the_Haitian_Revolut/7-FVvcPN1YUC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Haitian+independence&printsec=frontcover https://www.google.com/books/edition/Rethinking_the_Haitian_Revolution/qK6LDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Haitian+independence&printsec=frontcover https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Old_Regime_and_the_Haitian_Revolutio/btNeAEelkNMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=france+haitian+revolution&printsec=frontcover

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Sugar plantations in the Caribbean


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article was an extremely well written, unbiased, informative production on the sugar plantations in the Caribbean. It gave meaningful background and resources to contribute lots of information that would provide the reader with an abundance of knowledge. The links and sources used were also very well chosen, and chosen respectively for the things that they were linked to. The only problem that I really saw here was that they did not touch on the economics behind the sugar plantations. There was a little bit about it in the second section, however the authors really did not go into detail about how it impacted the rest of the world that was importing and exporting sugar at the time. I feel like that would be a useful thing to put in here especially with the fact that most sugar was coming from the Caribbean and subsequent tropical islands.


 * Sources
 * https://www.google.com/books/edition/American_Sugar_Kingdom/50jYBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=sugar+plantations+caribbean&printsec=frontcover https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_of_the_Caribbean/4ERcuAAACAAJ?hl=en https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sugar_Cane_Capitalism_and_Environmental/lY_JCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=sugar+plantations+caribbean&printsec=frontcover

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