Controlled by European expats, the island of São Tomé reportedly “became the first plantation economy” and launched “a model exported to the New World where it developed and expan…
By a decade later, it had become fully operational and robust sugar cane fields were first documented in 1506.Painting that covered up enslaved boy restored, set to hang in Met
Eventually, the island was rethought to be advantageous for the crop trade as it was “a major nexus between Europe and Africa.”“By 1517 production had taken off,” noted researchers from the University of Cologne, who studied the island’s Praia Melão sugar mill site, once active into the 1800s. The island’s sugar quality became poor at a time when Brazil’s industry was soaring. Ultimately, São Tomé landowners moved their production to the South American hot spot.
“The European population on the island dwindled, while the Creole elite and free Black people strengthened their political and social power, controlling landownership and trade, namely in human beings destined for Brazilian and Caribbean plantations.”Getty Images
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