Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 - Softcover

Dunn, Richard S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 976640089X ISBN 13: 9789766400897

Publisher: University Press of the West Indies, 2001

Synopsis

A vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three hundred years ago. Dunn examines sugar production techniques, the vicious nature of the slave trade, and the appalling mortality rates for both blacks and whites that made these colonies the richest but, in human terms, the least successful in English America.

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Book Description

"Dunn's work is a model of contemporary historical research. He writes with admirable clarity."-- London Financial Times

From the Inside Flap

Drawing upon such sources as travelers' accounts, plantation records, census returns, wills, inventories, land patents, maps, and parish registers, Richard Dunn presents a composite portrait of plantation life in the Caribbean three centuries ago.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of the West Indies
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 976640089X
• ISBN 13: 9789766400897
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 359