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breadfruit

'ulu · 'uru · breadfruit

Its presence in Caribbean food culture was engineered specifically to make slave labor cheaper to maintain.

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Cultural layer

Origin

Pacific Islands (Polynesia/Melanesia); staple crop of Pacific Islander cultures for 3000+ years

Routes

Pacific Islands, British transplanted it to Caribbean as cheap food for enslaved populations (HMS Bounty voyage, 1789)

Context

Captain Bligh's 1789 mission was not an adventure. It was a colonial logistics operation: bring a high-calorie, easy-growing crop from Tahiti to the Caribbean to reduce the cost of feeding enslaved plantation workers. The Bounty mutiny delayed but did not stop the transfer. Bligh completed the mission on a second voyage in 1793. Breadfruit arrived in Jamaica and became a Caribbean staple. Its presence in Caribbean food culture was engineered specifically to make slave labor cheaper to maintain.

Route

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