COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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sugar plantations in the West Indies needed labor
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cotton became a cash crop in the southern colonies
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American Indians refused to work on southern plantations
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indentured servants went on strike in the southern colonies
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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: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sugar and Slavery 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-4: -Once the cultivation of sugar cane had been transplanted to the Americas in the early 16th century, Spanish and Portuguese planters turned to exploiting slaves as laborers on the plantations. The first slaves were taken from among Indigenous populations in the Americas.