SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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it was labor intensive
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it was too sweet
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it was in high demand
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it was a rare product
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sugar was a luxury in Europe until the early 19th century, when it became more widely available, due to the rise of beet sugar in Prussia, and later in France under Napoleon.
Detailed explanation-2: -Historically, Sugar reached an all time high of 65.20 in November of 1974. Sugar-data, forecasts, historical chart-was last updated on February of 2023.
Detailed explanation-3: -Among them, sugar, valued for its sweetness since the Middle Ages, maintained a special position, dominating all exports from British America. Embraced by the British populace, sugar provided an impetus for colonization and required imported African labor.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sugar planters in the Americas initially deployed the labor of enslaved American Indians as well as enslaved Africans and European indentured servants, but by the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, African slavery had become the dominant plantation labor system.