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The Portuguese introduced sugar plantations in the 1550s off the coast of their Brazilian settlement colony, located on the island of Sao Vincente. [2] As the Portuguese and Spanish maintained a strong colonial presence in the Caribbean, the Iberian Peninsula amassed tremendous wealth from the cultivation of this cash crop.
Sugar plantations in the Danish West Indies (3 C) Pages in category "Sugar plantations in the Caribbean" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
Sugar Mill, Matanzas Province, Cuba (1898) Spain began growing sugarcane in Cuba in 1523, but it was not until the 18th century that Cuba became a prosperous colony. The outbreak of the Haitian Revolution in 1791 influenced Cuban planters to demand the free importation of slaves and the easing of trade relations in an effort to replace Haiti as the main sugar producer in the Caribbean.
This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica.These houses were built in the 18th and 19th centuries when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest colony in the West Indies. [1] Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved African people [2] until the aboltion of slavery in 1833.
Sugar plantations in the United States Virgin Islands — Caribbean sugar plantations active in the Danish West Indies (1754–1917), before the United States purchased them from Denmark in 1917 The main article for this category is Sugar production in the Danish West Indies .
This is a list of plantations and pens in Jamaica by county and parish including historic parishes that have since been merged with modern ones. Plantations produced crops, such as sugar cane and coffee, while livestock pens produced animals for labour on plantations and for consumption.
The plantations were reliant on regular supply of new slaves from West Africa; due to ill-health, smallpox, dysentery [5] and mistreatment, four out of every 10 slaves bought by the plantation in 1740 were reported to have died within three years. Initially slaves were branded with the word "Society" on their chests with a hot iron. [6]
The Drax's Caribbean slave plantations and estates then descended with that of Charborough House in Dorset. [1] [2] By 1680, Henry Drax was the owner of the largest plantations on Barbados, then in the parish of St. John. [3] A planter-merchant, Drax had a hired "proper persons' to act in, and do all business in Bridgetown". [4]