Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Was chattel slavery in Africa any different from that practiced in the Caribbean?" video.

Keep in mind that the the idea of the Caribbean plantation, which used slaves, was invented via a co-op between the Portuguese and West Africans. If I recall, they set the first model plantations up at Cape Verde. That model was successful, and it's idea was exported to the Caribbean, and then to the US.
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@57bananaman Brazil was first in the Americas, but I forgot to add it. The first slave ran plantation idea was tried in Africa and Cape Verde, and it was successful before they exported the idea west to Brazil. In Cape Verde's islands, they planted sugar cane first, and then cotton. I believe it was Drax family that brought the idea to Barbados, and then to Jamaica from the Dutch. The family had purchased several tobacco plantations that were already there, and converted them after the bottom dropped out of the tobacco market. The Draxes then produced sugar and rum. Of course, this spread. Cape Verde's ports became the main hub of the triangular trade west after that.
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@robinmorritt7493 Yes, it was mainly Brazil at first. The first plantations in the Caribbean were tobacco, and I think a few other things, where they depended on indentured servants to run them until the Drax family came to Barbados. The Drax family ended up with several tobacco plantations, but the market bottomed, so they looked for something else. It was said that a neighboring Dutch farmer taught him how to plant cane, and if I recall, they trace that farmer back to Brazil. The Dutch were there, and in Trinidad. After the Draxes became successful, they claim that they were the first to start importing slaves to replace indentured servants. There, in Barbados, the family built Drax Hall. I believe that it was one of the sons that started the operations in Jamaica. They had a Drax Hall there as well close to St. Ann's Bay. However, Brazil was sent the majority of the slaves.
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