Caribbean Slave Trade, Slaves Working Sugar Mill

Black slaves working in sugar mill. Hispaniola. The South Atlantic and Caribbean economies especially were dependent on the supply of secure labor for the production of commodity crops, making goods and clothing to sell in Europe. This was crucial to those western European countries which, in the late 17th and 18th centuries, were vying with each other to create overseas empires. No artist credited, 1590

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1590 Chattel Cruel Cruelty Hispaniola Infamous Inhumane Inhumanity Notorious Sixteenth

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