Sugar and Slaves. The rise of the planter class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713
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- Author(s) Dunn, Richard S
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1972
- Pages 359pp; illus
- Publisher University of North Carolina Press
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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An early scholarly account of the arrival of English planters in the West Indies, the development of their sugar plantations and their use of slave labour, with much also about their lives and lifestyles. Has sections: 'Beyond the line'; 'Barbados - the rise of the planter class'; 'Barbados - the planters in power'; 'The Leeward Islands'; 'Jamaica'; 'Sugar'; 'Slaves'; 'Life in the tropics'; 'Death in the tropics'; 'The legacy'