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  1. WEBJun 18, 2021 · A whole new kind of agriculture was invented to produce sugar โ€“ the so-called Plantation System. In it, colonists planted large acreages of single crops which could be shipped long distances and โ€ฆ

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    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.
    The whole plantation system of the Caribbean was essentially transferred to Cuba and Louisiana, where slavery still existed. When the Civil War began and cut off sugar supplies from Louisiana to the North, Hawaii became the new sugar production center for the US.
    The first plantations were set up after the Portuguese colonization of Madeira when Prince Henry decided that sugar production held the key to success for his Atlantic acquisitions, and he sent to Sicily for cane plants and experienced sugar technicians.
    Given the lack of reliable roads in the early national period, plantations were generally located near waterways so that sugar could be more easily transported out and the slaves and equipment to manufacture it more easily transported in. Sugar is a labor-intensive product that required a great deal from the slave labor force.
    Sugar plantations suffered from many of the same afflictions that manufacturing market segments in the United States continue to feel. Labor costs increased significantly when Hawaiสปi became a state and workers were no longer effectively indentured servants.
    São Tomé and Principe were really the first European colonies to develop large-scale sugar plantations employing a sizeable workforce of African slaves. The system was then applied on an even larger scale to the new colony of Portuguese Brazil from the 1530s. Within a few decades, Brazil had become the worldโ€™s largest producer of sugar.
  3. WEBThe history of sugar has five main phases: The extraction of sugar cane juice from the sugarcane plant, and the subsequent domestication of the โ€ฆ

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    • WEBOct 30, 2015 · The first place to cultivate sugarcane explicitly for large-scale refinement and trade was the Atlantic island of Madeira, during the late 15th century. Then, it was the Portuguese who realised...

    • The Bitter Truth About the History of Sugar | TIME

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