we are going to focus on some of the economic legacs, including the larger connections with modern capitalism.ecly, we're going to look at how the production of, american sugown as "white gold," helped to fuel slavery and became ingrained in our society. dystorian khalil gibran muhammad of harvard's kenchool wrote about that for the "new york times." "louisiana," he wrote, "led the nation in destroying the lives of black people inhe name of economic efficiency." and he jns me now. he joins me now. profes very much for being here. help us understand how sugar is connected to the origins of american slavery. >> sar was the most dominan economic incentive for european colonyization of ths.ameri no other crop was as abundant or successful in drawing europeansh to theseres, and i mean by that north america and south america, for the purpose of cultivating sugar for a worldwide market, and particularly forurope that had already established a taste for sugar but would grow exponentially in terms of demand over time. there's no way the really understand the significance of the colonization of the aerica