1 | Page Africain slavery of the sugarcane industry in Morocco of the 16 th -17 th centuries Kamal El Atif: PhD in history, University of Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Morocco kamal.elatif@edu.uiz.ac.ma Introduction The sugarcane industry of the 17 th century, by its post-medieval technology 1 , wasn’t limited -at this time- in Brazil and in the Antilles islands, but it had had also other territories so far from the west Atlantic coasts. Morocco in north Africa was surprisingly one of the outsiders of this industry in the era of the Saadian monarch “السعديين”, even with different climate and different natural circumstances. Also, the common part between the both side of the Atlantic was the laborers; they were a large groups of the same sub Saharan African families, managed in the same slavery system. I.the system of the sugarcane industry in Morocco of the 16 the century the Saadian monarch in the 16-17 th centuries produced sugar(fig.1) as an important commodity, exported and provided especially to two main countries: England and France. The Moroccan sugar was the first choice of the French and English negotiators by two reasons: first by considering that Morocco is too close geographically to Europe, comparing to the big new producers at this time: cap Verde, Brazil and Caribbean islands. In addition, and because of the religious and political conflicts against the catholic Spain and Portugal, these two Monarch were the pioneers in the same period of a new system of this industry, but at the same time the enemies of the protestant rising nations in north and west of Europe.