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Molasses Act
economics
trade
EIC
colonialism
legislation
France
Enacted upon the lobbying of plantation owners in the British West Indies. This act imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses from non-British sources. The Act sought to protect British trade in molasses from French competition.
A Trapiche on the island of Hispaniola, powered by horses and used to extract juice from sugarcane in order to make molasses. Diderot & d’Alembert, 1762
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