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During this time of the Sugar Trade. There was all types of trading happening world wide. Farmers from Nebraska would sell their wheat grains to traders in Chicago. Then they would resell to buyers in Bangladesh. As this grain was shipped. It would be on a Japanese freighter. Which was built by German steel. That was fueled from Venezuela. This is how trade was provided on a global scale. The sugar market became the new big thing in the global market of the early 1400’s - 1700’s. What I believe drove the sugar trade is how many people wanted the sugar. If they would not have had the slaves working so hard & fast. Which was in the humid heat just to produce more sugar cane to trade. Although sugar arrives in the new world. Now sugar

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