... the idea of free trade, they had to completely renovate sugar production. New technology was lacking in these colonies before 1846 but the Sugar Act made it even more crucial to the British plantocracy to improve their methods. Another reason for the decline in thaw was the emancipation of ... source of competition to the BWI that flooded the market, sending the price of sugar down. This however, presented itself years after the Sugar Act. Hence, lack of new technology, emancipation, beet sugar, rise in production costs and other scenarios like absentee ownership, neglect of administrat...

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