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Historian Matthew Parker discusses the history behind one of the greatest power struggles of the 17th to 19th centuries as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar--a commodity so lucrative it became known as "white gold'--in the tiny Caribbean islands of Barbados, Jamaica, and the Leeward Islands.

Sugar trade --- Sugar growing --- Sugar trade --- Sugar growing --- Sucre --- Sucre --- Propriétaires de plantations --- Vie dans les plantations --- Antilles britanniques --- History. --- History. --- History. --- History. --- Industrie et commerce --- Antilles britanniques --- Histoire --- Production --- Antilles britanniques --- Histoire --- Antilles --- Histoire --- Antilles --- Histoire --- Conditions économiques --- Histoire --- West Indies, British --- West Indies --- Europe --- Great Britain --- Economic conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Commerce. --- Commerce.