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In the sixteenth century, the Spanish and Portuguese began to transport enslaved Africans to their colonies in the Americas, followed by other European nations. By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, molasses and rum were essential to the New England economy. Rhode Island controlled up to 60 percent of the slave trade to North America. Slave traders from New England, Portugal, the Netherlands, Spain, France, and England brought enslaved people to the Caribbean in exchange for molasses. New Englanders turned the molasses into rum and traded it across the Atlantic to purchase more enslaved Africans. Great Britain\u2019s 1733 Molasses Act levied a tax on molasses imported from non-British colonies in the West Indies. To avoid paying the tax, ships began smuggling molasses. In this lesson, students
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