num_pages: 392
description: 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 richest, but in human terms the least successful, in English America.
language: English
title: Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713
titlecomplete: Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History ... and the University of North Carolina Press)
genres: Historical, History, American History, Labor, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 138
awards: awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Jamestown Prize, awardedAt: 94723200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: History
publisher: Omohundro Institute and UNC Press