Sugar and slaves
Subtitle: the rise of the planter class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713
By: by Richard S. Dunn ; foreword by Gary B. Nash.
Publisher: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
Subjects: Plantation life -- West Indies, British; Slavery -- West Indies, British; Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- West Indies, British; West Indies, British -- Social life and customs; West Indies -- History -- 17th century
Description: "Sugar and Slaves presents a vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three centuries ago. Using a host of contemporary primary source, 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.