The decline of the American South's cotton and sugar industries paved the way for plantations in British-controlled Fiji and Australia, where victims of "blackbirding" endured horrific working conditi ...
INDEX: Forces For Change MARINE TECHNOLOGY By the 15th century a number of important changes to ship design had occurred making long journeys across the ocean possible; the first ...
Enslaved people were brought to work on the cotton, sugar and tobacco plantations. The crops they grew were sent to Europe or to the northern colonies, to be turned into finished products.