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In 1492, Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas where the climate and soil were perfect for sugar cultivation.

Columbus embarked on a second trip in 1493 and planted sugar cane on what today is called the Dominican Republic. And then Templar Knights extended their sugar plantations to Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. However, Templar Knights enslaved the original peoples to provide the labor which is fundamental to operate sugar plantations - tilling soil, planting, tending crops, harvesting, and milling the juice into sugar.

The television program Isabel the Catholic verified that after he had sugar cane planted in 1493, when he returned to Spain, Christopher Columbus took back native peoples as slaves.

Fordham University's Associate Professor Barbara Mundy called this initial contact of Columbus with natives a " … tragedy … " and verified that they were enslaved.

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, Sidney W. Mintz, Ph.D., authenticated that whereas there were more than one million inhabitants on those islands when Columbus arrived, one hundred years later, " … that population had diminished to nothing. Really to no thing."

Alan Taylor, Ph.D., attested that the natives who were " … dragooned into doing the work on … plantations were dying out … from the stresses of slavery."

Hence, Templar Knights started slavery in the Americas by inflicted brutality on the original peoples, and thus, annihilated them.

Since on sugar plantations Templar Knights started enslaving natives peoples of the Americas;

and because the natives were dying off;

and because Africans were brought as slaves and replaced the natives on the sugar plantations, Templar Knights enslaved Africans.

And because the money that Templar Knights gained for selling Africans in the Americas was used to purchase plantation goods to be sold in Europe;

and because Templar Knights were the operators of plantations;

and because Templar Knights were the slave traders, Templar Knights bought plantation products from Templar Knights to sell in Europe.

And because after selling the goods in Europe, Templar Knights acquired products to trade with Africans for Africans to become slaves in the Americas;

and because the slaves were again brought to the Americas and sold for bondage on plantations;

and because this system became known as the Triangular slave trade, at every level - operating plantations, transporting Africans for sale as slaves for plantation, buying plantation goods to sell in Europe, and leaving Europe for Africa to repeat the process - Templar Knights ruled the Transatlantic slave trade.

Historian Wande Mustakeem described the Middle Passage: "The entire experience [was] so horrific and so … brutalizing in ways that are just unimaginable for contemporary audience.… public floggings … decapitations, being immersed in your own bodily excrement. It [was] complete loss of control over your life in every way possible."

Edward Ball, a descendant of the Ball's of a South Carolina slave plantation talked of the law whereby if a slave who ran away was recaptured: " … two toes amputated. If you ran away again, and you were caught, … ears amputated. And if you ran away a third time, the punishment was castration."

Of sugar and other products such as coffee and cotton grown on plantations by Templar Knights, Dr. Mintz said that the people who labored in the fields in the Caribbean and Americas were " … almost entirely enslaved … " through to abolition of slavery in the Caribbean, and then the United States in 1865.

Therefore, Templar Knights were the enslavers of Africans at all points of the slave trade.

However, in 1717 at the Gridiron bar in Britain, Templar Knights changed their name to Freemasons.