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One out of every two ships arriving in New York ports are connected to the sugar and slave trade.

1720

The Story of Sugar
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Muhammed (2019) writes: "The trade was so lucrative that Wall Street’s most impressive buildings were Trinity Church at one end, facing the Hudson River, and the five-story sugar warehouses on the other, close to the East River and near the busy slave market.” During the Revolutionary War, these sugarhouses will be where prisoners of war are kept, usually in overcrowded conditions.