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Christopher Columbus carries sugar seedlings with him to "Hispaniola" in order to start sugar plantations.

Date: 1493

The Story of Sugar
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During the early colonization of the land now known as the West Indies and the Americas, sugar is a central resource and commodity. The arrival of sugar leads to the development of sugar plantations where Black and Indigenous people are enslaved and subjected to multiple forms of violence.