Sugar Cane and the Spanish Conquest
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4
ABSTRACT:
A 4 page overview of the importance of the sugar industry in the Spanish Conquest. The author contends that the desire for sugar drove much of the international relationships at the time. Spain, consequently, was not above enslaving the indigenous peoples of the Americas nor the indigenous peoples of Africa to fuel her desires for this highly valuable commodity. Bibliography lists sources.
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File: AM2_PPsugarS.rtf
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