What is mercantilism? How did the creation of sugar plantations like that shown in the engraving contribute to a mercantilist system to export cash crops?

Mercantilism: Belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

Plantation economies rely on the export of cash crops as a source of income. Prominent crops included cotton, rubber, sugar cane, tobacco, figs, rice, etc. This became the Transatlantic Trade, mercantilists gathered slaves to perform plantation of cash crops. In which was sold tremendously.

Explanation:

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”