Sugar and Slavery. An economic history of the British West Indies, 1623-1775
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- Author(s) Sheridan, Richard B
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1994
- Pages 2nd ed; 529pp
- Publisher Canoe Press
- Place Published Kingston Jamaica
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- Country England
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First published 1974. Draws on the writer's doctoral thesis, London University, 1951. Seminal work. Deals with 1] context to the sugar trade; 2] economic history of West Indies; 3] methods of trade, shipping, finance of sugar production; 4] the sugar plantation owners and managers; 5] the sugar plantation industry. Chapters include: 1] 'Sugar - the inseparable companion of tea'; 'The hated Navigation acts, 1650-1700'; 'Planter politics, 1701-75'; 2] 'Settlement of the sugar colonies'; 'Geographic and economic influences'; 'Barbados - The brightest jewel in our crown of trade'; 'His Majesty's Leeward Islands' - St Christopher, Nevis. Montserrat, Antigua'; 'Jamaica - the fairest island'; 'Slavery and sugar'; 3] 'The English merchant as banker'; 'The planter's agent as banker'; 'A grand marine Empire'; 'Rum and molasses in British imperial trade'; 4] 'Planters and plantship'; 5] 'Booms and slumps in war and peace, 1623-1713'; 'The drive to monoculture, 1714-55'; 'The sugar colonies and the industrial Revolution, 1756-1775'