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Cotton and tobacco no longer proved to be profitable and the British were desperate for a crop to replace them . Pieter Brewer a Dutch Jew conducted experiments between 1637-1670 and discovered that Barbados was an ideal area for planting the crop. This crop was brought from Brazil

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