Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624–1713
by Richard S. Dunn
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First published by UNC Press in 1972, Sugar and Slaves presents 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 show more richest, but in human terms the least successful, in English America. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624–1713
- Original publication date
- 1972
- Important places
- British West Indies; Caribbean Region; West Indies; Jamaica; Nevis, Leeward Islands
- Dedication
- For Mary
- First words
- This book is about those other English colonists who came to America in the seventeenth century, the ones who chose the Caribbean islands rather than the mainland, who settled in St. Christopher in 1624, Barbados in 1627, Nev... (show all)is in 1628, Montserrat and Antigua in the 1630s, and Jamaica in 1655. [Preface]
On May 22, 1631, a doughty gentleman from Essex named Sir Henry Colt boarded the ship Alexander at Weymouth in Dorset and began to keep a journal. [Chapter 1] - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The stark dichotomy between the all-powerful sugar magnate and his abject army of black bondsmen was the ultimate expression in seventeenth-century English society of man's strenuous search for wealth in an era of primitive productive techniques.
- Blurbers
- Land, Aubrey C.; Snow, C. P.; Parker, John
- Original language
- English
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- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 972.9 — History & geography History of North America Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Bermuda West Indies (Antilles) and Bermuda; Caribbean
- LCC
- F2131 .D8 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America Latin America. Spanish America Lesser Antilles British West Indies
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