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 less

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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]
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(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.
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Land, Aubrey C.; Snow, C. P.; Parker, John
Original language
English

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History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
972.9History & geographyHistory of North AmericaMexico, Central America, West Indies, BermudaWest Indies (Antilles) and Bermuda; Caribbean
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F2131 .D8Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin AmericaLatin America. Spanish AmericaLesser AntillesBritish West Indies
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