![]() ![]() ![]() As early as the 1630s there were already more than 20 ships plying trade between New England and the British Caribbean. Go to footnote 156 detail As Edmund Burke observed in 1757, New Englanders became “carriers for all the colonies of North America and the West-Indies, and even for some parts of Europe. They brought back slave-produced commodities like sugar and molasses, most of which was then re-exported throughout the British empire. New England ships carried enslaved people and critical supplies to the Caribbean islands. ![]() While large-scale plantation slavery never took root in New England, for more than a century, Boston merchants played an essential role in sustaining the sugar plantation economy of the Caribbean many of those same merchants were important players in Harvard’s early history. ![]()
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