Sugar and Slavery
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Sugar and Slavery
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844605.book.part.013

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Abstract

The defining industry of the colonial Americas was African slave–produced sugar. Over the history of the Atlantic slave trade, a far larger number of enslaved Africans worked in the sugar industry than in any other colonial enterprise. The roots of the sugar and slavery complex can be traced to the medieval Mediterranean, from which it spread to the Portuguese Atlantic islands, but it reached new heights in the colonial era.

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