Brazilian possession wars cut off Europe’s sugar supply and redirected Caribbean farming

Evidence

The cunning of history then intervened, cutting off Europe’s supply of New World sugar as one result of the wars for the possession of Brazil between the Spanish, the Portuguese, the Dutch and the Luso-Brazilians. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 588

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s sense that Atlantic plantation slavery was the pivot of the slave trade arc toward the Black radical tradition.