Wars crippling rival producers raised world prices, spiking Brazilian slave demand

Evidence

In this respect, Brazil was responding to political, economic, and financial forces in the world market. At its base, the spurt in the Brazilian economy was a consequence of the market demand for sugar and cotton: “[T]he American Revolutionary Wars, the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars and, not least, the bloody uprising in the Caribbean sugar island of St. Domingue had crippled many of Brazil’s economic rivals and raised world prices for tropical produce.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 753

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s tree/grafting article’s framing of infrastructure economics, and to hemispheric plantation-logic themes elsewhere in Black Marxism.
• STORYSTEM: The St. Domingue uprising paradoxically enriching slave Brazil — one revolution financing another region’s bondage — could seed a narrative device.