Sugar Killed More Enslaved Africans Than Cotton
Early Modern Period

Sugar Killed More Enslaved Africans Than Cotton

One Caribbean crop created more slave ships than cotton ever did, and it wasn't tobacco.

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Atlantic Slave TradeCaribbeanSugar TradeBritish EmpireColonial EconomicsJamaicaSlaveryAgriculture18th CenturyEnvironmental Destruction

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