The Americas were impacted by the European desire for sugar because;
The growing demand for sugar and other cash crops came with the colonization of the Americas by the Europeans. Their increasing demands for sugar led to the intensification of the slave trade. The Royal African Company was chartered in 1672 to prioritize the importation of Africans as slaves.
Barbados which was one of the sugar Islands colonized by the British crown gained an increased number of residents because of the influx of African slaves who were to work on the Island.
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