Sugar was once the most important crop in the world. It was used to make molasses and rum, and to sweeten the cuisines of people around the world. And because sugar cane grows in warm, tropical climates, the Caribbean islands were the perfect places to grow it. European settlers from England, France, Spain, and Holland came to the region, cut down the islands' forests, and planted sugar cane.Of all the English colonies in the Caribbean, St. Kitts was the oldest and wealthiest - with rich volcanic soil
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View More and an ideal climate. Annually St. Kitts yielded a fortune in sugar and rum for its wealthy, mostly absentee, landholders. By around 1775, the time of the American Revolution, 68 sugar plantations existed on St. Kitts, one for every square mile. The plantation owners sold their sugar products to American, British, French and Dutch customers. They are also credited with production innovations that led St.Kitts to become the world leader in sugar cane cultivation, and a catalyst for the industrial revolution.
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