Equal Protection and Race........................................................................................................ 1839. Overview..............................................................................................................................
Sugar cane plantations in the colonies of the West Indies. The older Sugar and Molasses tax charged the customer a duty of 6 pence per gallon of molasses. The bribe to customs officials per gallon of smuggled molasses was 1.5p. The new Sugar Act lowered the duty to 3p per gallon.
From the late 1600s to the early 1700s, colonists did all of the following to undermine British restrictions on. trade, except. b. d. complain to representatives of the Crown. smuggle sugar, molasses, and rum into the colonies. trade with plantation owners in the West Indies. charge taxes on goods exported to England.