Directly or indirectly, the essence of the slave plantation model that arose here would be responsible for the two most significant mass agricultural revolutions in modern history, both of which we will look into in detail: Big Sugar and Big Cotton, with the straight line that connects them running right through the cultivation of indigo and tobacco here and there as well as South Carolina rice and coffee and cacao, as the slave plantation experience was extended to wherever it could be made to work in the New World.
