Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 (Published for the Institute of Early AME)

Richard S. Dunn

ISBN 10: 0807848778 / ISBN 13: 9780807848777

Published by University of North Carolina Press

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Print on Demand pp. 392.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 (Published for the Institute of Early AME)
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• ISBN 10: 0807848778
• ISBN 13: 9780807848777
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

First published by UNC Press in 1972 Sugar and Slavespresents a vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three centuries ago Using a host of contemporary primary sources Richard Dunn traces the development of plantation slave society in the region He examines sugar production techniques the vicious character of the slave trade the problems of adapting English ways to the tropics 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