In Europe, tea and coffee were becoming fashionable, and this led to a huge demand for sugar to sweeten them. Sugar grew well in the climate of the west indies, but its cultivation needed many workers.Local labor could not be found, because many of the original islanders had died, and so the colonist imported slaves from west Africa.
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They filled boats as much as they could with slaves. Because of this two thirds died. Both from the boats and being slave driven. A lot of time they were literally worked to death. What a sad time in history.
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