<span>The First </span><span><span>Industrial Revolution</span> was about textiles and coal and iron.</span><span>The Second Industrial Revolution was about electricity and chemicals and petroleum and all the things that can be made and consumed using these. </span>
The planters filled the need for large numbers of workers on sugar plantations with captured Africans who were brought to the colonies as slaves. Slavery work was hard, and more often than not, separated them from their family and community.