FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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Slave trading ships were made out of sugarcane stalks
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Only African slaves knew how to grow sugarcane
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African slaves were needed to work on sugarcane plantations
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Sugarcane was the main currency used in the Atlantic slave trade
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Detailed explanation-1: -Slave trading ships were made out of sugarcane stalks. African slaves were needed to work on sugarcane plantations. Only African slaves knew how to grow sugarcane. Sugarcane was the main currency used in the Atlantic slave trade.
Detailed explanation-2: -Europeans enjoyed their sugar and were causing the inhumane Atlantic slave trade. The conditions for enslaved people on sugar plantations in the Caribbean were especially brutal. Driven by profits, plantations owners saw enslaved labor as a less expensive way to produce sugar.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sugar as a commodity touched many aspects of the Atlantic economy, brought millions of Africans to the Caribbean and to Brazil to cultivate the crop, and created a class of fabulously wealthy merchants and planters and a political interest group with significant power in European government.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the colonial period, the arrival of sugar culture deeply impacted the society and economy in the Caribbean. It not only dramatically increased the ratio of slaves to free men, but it increased the average size of slave plantations.