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Fernando Ortíz called this trade good the “favored child of capitalism.” After World War I, the price of this good rapidly fluctuated in the “Dance of the Millions.” (10[1])In one colony, axes were often left by large rollers that processed this good to amputate the limbs of trapped workers. (-5[3])Large estates that produced this good were run by “Big Whites” in a colony that one historian called a “vicious society”; (10[1]-5[2])a revolt in that colony began after a meeting led by Dutty Boukman. (10[1]-5[1])Eric Williams’s Capitalism and Slavery proposed the thesis that the intensive labor needed (10[1])for this crop led to the development of the Atlantic slave trade. The colony of Saint-Domingue primarily exported this crop before the Haitian Revolution. For 10 points, name this cash crop exported from the Caribbean in the triangle trade. (10[2])■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: sugarcane [or cane sugar; prompt on molasses or rum; reject “sugar beets” or “beet sugar”] (C. L. R. James described Saint-Domingue as a “vicious society” in Black Jacobins.)
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