Title: Sugar and slaves
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.
Subjects: History, Manufacture and refining, Plantation life, Slavery, Social life and customs, Sugar, Manners and customs, Slavery, west indies, Sugar trade, West indies, history, West indies, british, Slavery, history
Places: British West Indies, West Indies
Time periods: 17th century