HST 101 Lecture Notes - Main Source, Sub-Saharan Africa, Dutch Cape Colony
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Colonization before 1650: spanish settlers introduced sugar-cane cultivation into the west indies shortly after 1500 but did not do much else toward the further development of the islands. After 1600 the french and english developed colonies based on tobacco cultivation: tobacco consumption became popular in england in the early 1600s. Tobacco production in the west indies was stimulated by two new developments: the formation of chartered companies and the availability of cheap labor in the form of european indentured servants. In the mid-1600s competition from milder virginia tobacco and the expulsion of experienced dutch sugar producers from brazil combined to bring the west. Sugar and slaves: the portuguese had introduced sugar-cane cultivation to brazil, and the dutch. West india company, chartered to bring the dutch wars against spain to the. New world, had taken control of 1,000 miles of sugar-producing brazilian coast.