Skip to content
🇭🇹   BETA  ·  9,789 entries published  ·  90,211 entries away from the 100k milestone.       🇭🇹   BETA  ·  9,789 entries published  ·  90,211 entries away from the 100k milestone.       
You are offline — some content may not be available
1515

1515: Sugar cane was introduced to the West Indies from the Canary Islands as the goldfields began to show signs of exhaustion.

1515: Sugar cane was introduced to the West Indies from the Canary Islands as the goldfields began to show signs of exhaustion. This shift toward industrial agriculture created an increased demand for enslaved Black people deported from Africa to replace the declining Taino population.

Source  ·  p. 157-158 Rouse, The Tainos, 157-158