HISTORY
NEW GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
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Question
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Slave trading ships were made out of sugarcane stalks
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Only african slaves knew how to grow sugarcane
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African slaves were needed to work on sugarcane plantations
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Sugarcane was the main currency used in the Atlantic slave trade
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The demand for sugar drove the transatlantic slave trade, which saw 10-12 million enslaved people transported from Africa to the Americas, often to toil on sugar plantations. This voyage was called the Middle Passage, and was notorious for its brutality and inhumaneness.
Detailed explanation-3: -Enslaved Africans were first brought to Virginia in 1619. The settlements required a large number of laborers to sustain them. Because these crops required large areas of land, the plantations grew in size, and in turn, more labor was required to work on the plantations.
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.
Detailed explanation-5: -Gradually they began to import African slaves as sugarcane cultivation got underway in the northeast. The Portuguese, after first attempting to develop the brazilwood trade, changed, in the mid-16th century to sugarcane production and the importation of African slaves to work in that industry.