Between 1700-1759 the slave trade in Jamaica was the most international activity of the industrial world. It required the assembling of goods from at least two continents, the transporting of those goods for their exchange for forced labor.
Unending work of milling, boiling and striking the sugar syrup, transporting the finished products, rum, molasses, planting, harvesting and cutting the sugar cane, and the various sugars to the dockside, and loading them aboard ships
