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Which wars? Do you mean colonial era, or recent ones?
by barbariangrunge 4y ago
Which wars? Do you mean colonial era, or recent ones?
- torstenvl 4y agoDutch West India Co. and colonial wars over Caribbean islands, mostly. There's also an argument to be made that, in addition to cotton, the sugar trade contributed to the intense economic incentive for American slavery, leading to the American Civil War; that argument is weaker, however, since sugar wasn't as important as cotton to the South at large and since (to my knowledge) there wasn't a large consolidated commercial enterprise like DWIC for sugar (or Chiquita for bananas and the banana wars).