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====France and England established new Caribbean colonies to find more acreage for sugar plantations. In 1655 the Spanish island of Jamaica was taken by the English, and then, Havana, Cuba fell into England’s grasp in 1762 and the English controlled the city for a year. English merchants had brought in vast quantities of slaves and Cuba had started to change from tobacco to sugar production before the conquest was finished. The western half of the spacious Spanish island of Hispaniola was invaded by the French in the 1670s.==== ====During the eighteenth century, Jamaica exceeded Barbados as England’s foremost sugar colony, but the new French territory of Saint Domnigue (current-day Haiti) grew to be the biggest manufacturer of sugar in the Atlantic world. The industrial, environmental, and social alteration of the West Indies shows the effectiveness of the new Atlantic system.====





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