Sugar soon displaced tobacco and indigo as the colony’s dominant crop

Evidence

But the competition of Virginia tobacco, changing colonial policies, and the emergence of other crops soon ended tobacco cultivation in Saint- Domingue. The second crop to take off in the colony, indigo, involved a more sophisticated processing procedure that turned the harvested grasses into a blue dye, and so required a bit more capital. Nevertheless, small indigo plantations appeared throughout the colony. This crop would remain an important part of the island’s economy, but it was soon overshadowed by the crop that came to dominate Saint-Domingue for the rest of its centurylong existence: sugar. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 74

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A tobacco glut depression forced colonial planters to seek a new staple — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 588; Tobacco glut and Brazil’s sugar wars drove the English to sugar cultivation — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 588; A tobacco price crash forced colonists to seek a new staple crop. (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A tobacco glut depression forced colonial planters to seek a new staple — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 588; Tobacco glut and Brazil’s sugar wars drove the English to sugar cultivation — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 588; A tobacco price crash forced colonists to seek a new staple crop. (+2 more)