Cutting Sugar Cane
Around 1550, the center of sugar production and of black enslavement shifted to the
Americas. By 1600, Brazil had emerged as the leading supplier of sugar to Europe. But the
sugar monopoly of the Spanish and Portuguese was broken during the 17th century when
the British, French, and Dutch became major powers in the Caribbean.
From William Clark, Ten Views in the Island of Antigua, 1832
Courtesy of Hamilton College Library, Beinecke Collection of the Lesser Antilles
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