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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.” In one colony, axes were often left by large rollers that processed this good to amputate the limbs of trapped workers. (-5[1])Large estates that (10[1])produced this good were run by “Big Whites” in a colony that one historian (-5[1])called a “vicious society”; a revolt in that colony began after a meeting led by Dutty Boukman. Eric Williams’s Capitalism and Slavery (10[1])proposed the thesis that the intensive labor needed 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. (10[2])For 10 points, name this (10[1])cash crop exported from the Caribbean in the triangle trade. ■END■

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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