USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The enslaved cargo was then brought to the West Indies and sold to sugarcane plantations to harvest the sugar for molasses. Molasses was then brought from the West Indies to the colonies and sold to rum producers.

Detailed explanation-2: -The West Indies stimulated prosperity on the North American mainland where farmers produced lumber, fish, livestock, and grain to supply the sugar plantations. With the production of sugar, the West Indies overtook the Chesapeake as the most valuable set of English colonies.

Detailed explanation-3: -The English colonies in North America sent fish and lumber to the West Indies in exchange for enslaved people and sugar.

Detailed explanation-4: -many died.” In the West Indies, the ships exchanged captive Africans and gold for sugar and molasses, a syrup made from sugarcane. The ships completed the triangle by carrying the sugar and molasses back to colonial ports. The molasses was used to make rum.

Detailed explanation-5: -The West Indies and the Sugar Trade 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.