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.
They were angry. The tax lowered the tax on molasses, but unlike the molasses act, the sugar act was enforced. The colonists ignored the molasses acts higher tax and just smugâ¦gled the goods, but they couldn't do that with the sugar act.