USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were a major part of the economy of the islands in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Most Caribbean islands were covered with sugar cane fields and mills for refining the crop. The main source of labor, until the abolition of chattel slavery, was enslaved Africans.

Detailed explanation-2: -They sowed, tended and harvested the crop, and then worked to extract the juice from the sugar cane and boil and process the juice in order to turn it into sugar and molasses, and later they might work to distil some of the waste products into rum.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sugarcane farmers Sugarcane is grown by farmers either as a main crop or as a cash crop within a diversified portfolio. For smallholders in the study region, those who own 2–5 acres, sugarcane continues to be the main crop. They are characterized by continuous growing of sugarcane with and without ratooning.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -(ˈʃʊɡə plɑːnˈteɪʃən ) noun. a large area of land where sugar is grown.