USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -By the 1770s, West Indian planters were exporting nearly 100, 000 tons of sugar and 2 million gallons of rum to Britain and the North American colonies, the combined value of which reached almost £4 million.

Detailed explanation-2: -The ships were then prepared to get them thoroughly cleaned, drained, and loaded with export goods for a return voyage, the third leg, to their home port, from the West Indies the main export cargoes were sugar, rum, and molasses; from Virginia, tobacco and hemp.

Detailed explanation-3: -To the West Indies they carried much fish and lumber; the later being large quantities of pipe staves for the sugar plantations. In return they carried cargos from there to England, of sugar, molasses, cotton, logwood, etc. to England they sent direct quantities of ship timber, various furs, deer, bears, beavers, etc.

Detailed explanation-4: -Europeans introduced sugarcane to the New World in the 1490s. Cane plantations soon spread throughout the Caribbean and South America and made immense profits for planters and merchants. By 1750, British and French plantations produced most of the world’s sugar and its byproducts, molasses and rum.