After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, Americans entered the state and joined the sugar cultivation.

Fewer than 20 hectares (50 acres) of original forests have survived the 300 years of sugar cultivation.

As on many other Caribbean islands, sugar cultivation became the most profitable enterprise, quickly surpassing other crops in economic importance.

Land under sugar cultivation has steadily increased, and the industry estimated that it produced more than 16 million tons of sugarcane in 1994.

During the 17th and 18th centuries, massive deforestation was undertaken by the planters as the land was initially cleared for sugar cultivation.

He engaged in sugar cultivation until his death in 1816.

Nevertheless, within two years, settlements sprang up and sugar cultivation was established again.

There was sugar cultivation in the 1800s, but it ended.

They are nicknamed The Sugar Boyz due to the sugar cultivation on the island.

Bahia became the center of sugar cultivation from the 16th to the 18th centuries.