Sugar topped the eighteenth-century westward trade ahead of slaves

Evidence

“In the westward trade in the first half of the eighteenth century was first of all sugar, and second of all the slaves who made the sugar possible. Britain clearly dominated world commerce in sugar as of 1700, but by 1750 primacy had passed to France.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1973

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

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