Plantations+in+the+West+Indies

====The original area in the Americas reached by Columbus was the West Indies. It was also the first place in the Americas where native communities disintegrated from plagues. It took a lengthy duration to repopulate the West Indies from foreign lands and construct new economic bonds between them and different regions of the Atlantic. After 1650, the West Indies came to be a primary focus of the Atlantic economy because of sugar plantations, African slaves, and European capital.====

Colonization Before 1650 Sugar and Slaves
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Taylor Armstrong