North American and French Caribbean colonies depended on each other despite imperial wars

Evidence

Sugar was the economic miracle of the eighteenth century. Originally from the Middle East, sugarcane had been cultivated on Spanish and Portuguese islands of the eastern Atlantic for centuries. The Spanish in Hispaniola and the Portuguese in Brazil pioneered cane cultivation in the Americas, and the French and English drew on their examples and on the knowledge and finances of the Dutch in establishing their plantation societies in the Caribbean. These colonies both depended on and drove the expansion of the emerging capitalist system of the Atlantic world. Starting in the seventeenth century a remarkable spiral of cause and effect transformed sugar from a luxury enjoyed by only the wealthiest Europeans to a necessity that was a central part of many Europeans’ diets. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 75 (#expands, via linked claim)

Let us not exaggerate. When a soldier of the conquering army went to bed with a young Malagasy girl, there was undoubtedly no tendency on his part to respect her entity as another person. The racial conflicts did not come later, they coexisted. The fact that Algerian colonists go to bed with their fourteen-year-old housemaids in no way demonstrates a lack of racial conflicts in Algeria. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 904 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: European war spread to the Caribbean and reshaped the colonial conflict; France could not maintain free and slave colonies within sight of each other; Racial conflict coexisted with intimate colonial relations rather than arising later — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 904 (+1 more)

Related

• Racial conflict coexisted with intimate colonial relations rather than arising later (similarity 0.79)
• European war spread to the Caribbean and reshaped the colonial conflict (similarity 0.79)
• Caribbean sugar colonies drove the rise of Atlantic capitalism (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• European war spread to the Caribbean and reshaped the colonial conflict #qualifies (0.60)
• Caribbean sugar colonies drove the rise of Atlantic capitalism #expands (0.60) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 75
• Racial conflict coexisted with intimate colonial relations rather than arising later #expands (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 904
• France could not maintain free and slave colonies within sight of each other #qualifies (0.50)