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Found this at Jewish Encyclopedia (in the article about agriculture): "On the virgin soil of America the Jews were among the pioneers of Agriculture. While Louis de Torres introduced tobacco into use for civilized mankind (Kayserling, “Columbus,” p. 95), Jews transplanted the sugar-cane from Madeira to Brazil in 1548 (according to Fishell; see M. J. Kohler “Publ. Am. Jew. Hist. Soc.” ii. 94) or in 1531 (Lindo, in G. A. Kohut’s article, ibid. iii. 135; compare Joseph ha-Kohen, in R. Gottheil’s translation, ibid. ii. 133). During the seventeenth century the sugar industry was monopolized by the Jews, and with their expulsion from Brazil it was transplanted to the West Indies, where, in 1663, David de Mercato’s invention of new sugar-mills benefited the sugar-trade in Barbados. The Jews in Georgia, chief among them Abraham de Lyon, transplanted vine and silk culture from Portugal to America (“Publ. Am. Jew. Hist. Soc.” i. 10). But while De Lyon cherished great expectations in that direction, the Jews of Georgia in general found the production of indigo, rice, corn, tobacco, and cotton more profitable (ibid. p. 12). In fact, the cotton-plantations in many parts of the South were wholly in the hands of the Jews, and as a consequence slavery found its advocates among them. (By : Kaufmann Kohler, Frederick de Sola Mendes) If the sugar industry was monopolized by the Jews in the seventeenth century, it would also mean that slavery was a Jewish monopoly, since most slaves worked at the sugar plantations. No wonder so many Jews have names like Zucker, Zuckerman, Zuckerberg, … IOW they produced and sold sugar and tobacco – the two most harmful drugs – to Europeans, and used African slaves to harvest the fields. And now they blame “whiteness” for all of this."