AP US History in 1 Minute Daily: British West Indies (Day 25/309)
Jul 30, 2023
Welcome to day 25 of APUSH in 1 Minute Daily!
Today I will be explaining the main characteristics of the British West Indies.
Scrambles for the West Indies AlternateHistory.com
The British colonized many islands in the Caribbean including Barbados, Jamaica, the Bahamas and more. This region experiences a tropical climate with a year-round growing season.
The Sugar Mill BritishEmpire.Co.UK
Due to these conditions, the British West Indies developed highly productive plantation economies primarily based on sugarcane. These islands became the most valuable of all the English colonies.
Intercolonial Trade Routes and Goods National Geographic
In 1650, there were more white colonists that lived in the British West Indies than the Chesapeake and New England combined. Due to their complete focus on commercial agriculture, they depended on intercolonial trade networks and imported lumber and food crops from the British North American colonies.
Volume and Direction of Transatlantic Slave Trade Slavevoyages.org
The demand for labor exploded the English slave trade. Due to horrific conditions the laborers died faster than they could reproduce. The majority of Africans trafficked to the British colonies were sent to the West Indies.
The British West Indies should be most remembered for their extremely productive plantation economy based on the export of crops and brutal participation in the transatlantic slave trade.
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