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The Portuguese set up the first slave-trade post in the New World in the year of 1482.
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The first sugar harvest took place in Hispanola in 1501.
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By the year of 1540, thousands of sugar mills had sprouted along the coast of Brazil; there were 800 on Santa Catarina alone.
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The need for imported slaves from Africa grew considerably after the New Laws of 1542 discourages enslaving natives.
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The Dutch were the ones to initially carry sugar from Brazil to the Caribbean islands.
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Sugarcane came to the island of Nevis in the 1640s, and quickly became a lucrative crop on the island. Sugar, rum, and molasase soon made up 92% of its exports, and the slave population on the island was raised substantially as more mills came up.
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The Royal African Company is founded by Charles II and brother, and goes on to exploit the slave trade for years.
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By 1680, sugar became the overwhelming reason that slaves were transported to the New World, and a majority of slaves there worked with sugar in some way, shape, or form.
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More than two centuries after its initial start, England abolished the transatlantic slave trade in 1807. By this point in time sugar was the most established and popular crop, and the population on many islands in the Caribbean were up to 80% black.
