Sugar and slaves : the rise of the planter class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 /
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 th...
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Chapel Hill [North Carolina] ; London [England] :
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press
2000.
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| Онлайн хандалт: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807899823_dunn |
| Тойм: | 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 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. |
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| Биет тодорхойлолт: | 1 online resource (390 pages) |
| Формат: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Номзүй: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1469600420 9781469600420 0807848778 0807811920 0224008145 9780807848777 976640089X 9789766400897 |