Sugar and Slaves

The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8078-4877-7
Verlag: Omohundro Institute and UNC Press

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 631 g

Reihe: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

First published by UNC Press in 1972, Sugar and Slaves presents a vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three centuries ago. Using a host of contemporary primary sources, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dunn, Richard S.

Über Autor(innen)

Richard S. Dunn is director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.