The Sugar cane plant was the main crop produced on the numerous plantations throughout the Caribbean through the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, as almost every island was covered with sugar plantations for refining the cane for its sweet properties. The main source of labor was African slaves. These plantations produced 80-90 percent of the sugar consumed in Western Europe.
meet their needs and eliminate an expensive import
Europeans came to explore, trade, spread Christianity, claim territory, hunt whales, set up plantations, and set up military bases.
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They set up large plantations with many slaves.
the loyalist set up cotton plantations in the bahamas:)
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Conditions on slave plantations were bad, You would work from sun rise to sun set and would be beat if you didn't do enough work-
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Europians-
They set up a first free African city
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