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Patel goes on to say that sugar isn’t American either. “Sugar cane was first brought to the US by Jesuits in 1751, but most US sugar remained an import until the Haitian revolution,” he notes.
But that’s not all; not only is sugar not American but it can also be linked to the international slave trade. This is how Patel draws the connection in his article:
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