slaves and innovations –a good source
http://louisproyect.org/2007/07/24/slavery-technical-innovation-and-the-sugar-plantation/ excerpted from above “Between 1760 and 1830, the Jamaican Legislature passed 49 bills granting patents for improved methods in sugar and rum production. Of these, 34 were for innovations in the infernal sugar crushing mills. It should be said that there were also many agricultural patents at the same time in the mother country,…