. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . increasedabundantly. As illustrative of the extensive development inSanto Domingo, it is interesting to note that Charles V ofSpain obtained from import taxes on Santo Domingan sugarthe vast sums of money expended in the building of the royalpalaces at Madrid and Toledo.* Brazil was discovered by Pinzon in 1499^ and sugar cane wastaken there from Madeira. About thirty-three years later plan-tations had been laid out and the first sugar factory built. Theyear 1590 saw one hundred and two mills in operation in theprovin
. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . increasedabundantly. As illustrative of the extensive development inSanto Domingo, it is interesting to note that Charles V ofSpain obtained from import taxes on Santo Domingan sugarthe vast sums of money expended in the building of the royalpalaces at Madrid and Toledo.* Brazil was discovered by Pinzon in 1499^ and sugar cane wastaken there from Madeira. About thirty-three years later plan-tations had been laid out and the first sugar factory built. Theyear 1590 saw one hundred and two mills in operation in theprovinces of Bahia and Pemambuco; and in 1600 the quantityof sugar exported from Brazil was 15,000 tons. At that timeBrazil belonged to Spain, which had annexed Portugal and hercolonies in 1580. It was conquered by the Dutch in 1629, and a I Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. XII, p. 826, gives 1506 as date of introduction of sugarin Santo Domingo. Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. XXVI, p. 44, says sugar carried toSanto Domingo in 1494. * Encyclopedia Britannica, XXII, p. 658. 3 O. Copyright, i(jo6. Bratin, Clement ct Cic. Braun et Cic Siicccssciirs EARLY HISTORY 125 great many sugar plantations and factories were destroyed;but these were subsequently restored by the new rulers. TheDutch, in turn, were expelled in 1655; and in 1661 Brazil wasacknowledged to be a Portuguese possession. The sugar tradesuffered, however, on account of the banishment of twentythousand Dutch in 1655, and also through the discovery of goldin 1725, which drew the laborers from the sugar fields andmills; and the production fell off to a large extent. The island of St. Christopher (now St. Kitts) was occupiedin 1625 by both the English and the French. Ten years later theFrench took Guadeloupe and Martinique; Barbados became aBritish possession in 1627, and Jamaica was annexed in cane was planted in all these colonies, but through lackof knowledge and experience the product obtained was of in-different
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