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[โ€“] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Explains all the sugarcane farms

[โ€“] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Well, lots of demand for an extended period of time (ie centuries), plus a crop that grew well in areas that didn't take to traditional cash crops, and sugar was relatively easy to process into a form that shipped well even back in the Age of Sail (molasses and rum).

Frankly, there are a lot of reasons that sugar cane was a popular crop.