Which crop's cultivation in the Caribbean and Brazil drove the greatest volume of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade?
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Correct answer: Sugarcane
Sugar production was incredibly profitable but also the most deadly and labor-intensive industry in the New World. The majority of Africans taken across the Atlantic were sent to the sugar colonies of the Caribbean and South America.
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