Abstract
Sugar production is definitely essential to understand Black slave trade between Africa and America. While referring to American slavery, one often thinks about the old American cotton plantations in the south. Nevertheless, sugar played a significant role than other productions like cotton or tobacco at the beginning of the slave trade. Robert William Fogel writes: "To those who identify slavery with cotton and tobacco, the small size of the U.S. share in the slave trade may seem surprising. The temporal pattern of slaves' imports, however, clearly reveals that the course of the Atlantic slave trade cannot be explained by the demand of these crops.?
