Sugar And Slavery
Subtitle: An Economic History Of The British West Indies
Publisher: University of West Indies Press
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 546
ISBN-13: 9789768125132
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Economic history; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; History; History: World; West Indies; Caribbean & West Indies - General; Slavery; Sugar trade; West Indies, British
First sentence: To Europeans and North Americans the British West Indies are commonly regarded as tourist resorts, 'islands in the sun' where one may find palatial hotels fronting on sandy beaches of the Caribbean Sea and regaling their guests with rum punch and exotic foods to the accompaniment of steel bands and calypso artists.