... eastern seaboard of North America, as well as a few islands and also the Hudson Bay area. The Dutch had a smaller hold, ruling the Dutch Guiana although they had a brief period of expansion in the early seventeenth century. Finally, the Portuguese had settled mostly in Brazil. Sugar was the most prolific crop, and hence sugar plantations were the goal in most areas of the ... increased development of plantations in Barbados. In 1640, the 40 percent of the land was plantations; by mid 1767, that number increased to 80 percent. At that point over 65 percent of sugar consumed in Great Brit...

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