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Colonial molasses trade

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The colonial molasses trade occurred throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries in the European colonies in the Americas. Molasses was a major trading product in the Americas, being produced by enslaved Africans on sugar plantations in European colonies. The good was a major import for the British North American colonies, which used molasses to produce rum, especially in distilleries in New England. The finished product was then exported to Europe as part of the triangular trade.