The Lexicon of the Sugar Cane Culture in the Atlantic World Construc- tion: Madeira, Canaries, Cap Vert, S. Tome and Prince, Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia

Abstract

Madeira Island played an important rôle in the development of sugar cane production, transplanting the Mediterranean in the Atlantic, and in the transmission of this culture to the Atlantic islands of the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, S. Tome and Prince and Brazil. The Canaries also transmitted this knowledge, techniques and words, to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, to the Caribbean Antilles, Venezuela and Colombia. Sugar cane was one of the first global products in Atlantic trade, promoting linguistic and cultural exchanges between the different sugar growing areas, mainly in the Atlantic islands and in the Latin-American new world. That's why today we have one common sugar terminology on both sides of the Atlantic, which is important to know, to valorize and preserve.