USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Caribbean and Brazilian planters did at this time increasingly come to focus production on one crop in particular: sugar cane. This has come to be called the “sugar revolution” in Caribbean history.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sugar was the most important crop throughout the Caribbean, although other crops such as coffee, indigo, and rice were also grown.

Detailed explanation-3: -At first the farmers grew tobacco and cotton. Sugar soon started to replace these two as the main crop.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the 17th century, most farmers in the West Indies were growing cotton and tobacco. However, the owners of the large Caribbean plantations decided to switch to growing sugar cane. The plantation owners purchased enslaved people to provide the labour for this work.

Detailed explanation-5: -Summary. For historians of the Caribbean, the “sugar revolution” usually means the seventeenth-century introduction of the whole plantation complex into the eastern Caribbean, including its technology, institutions, and the African slaves to do most of the work.