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Sugar Plantations of Brazil and the Caribbean - The Transatlantic Slave Trade
Natalie Frederick Pierre is an assistant professor of African diaspora history at Howard University. It was the sugar plantations of Brazil and the Caribbean that really kickstarted the transatlantic slave trade. At one point in the early 1700s, nearly half of the world sugar was produced by enslaved Africans on one island in the Caribbean. The idea was if we could get poorer people to eat it, we'll sell more.