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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460609703321

Autore

Dunn Richard S.

Titolo

Sugar and slaves : the rise of the planter class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 / / by Richard S. Dunn ; foreword by Gary B. Nash

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2000

ISBN

0-8078-9982-8

1-4696-0042-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (390 p.)

Collana

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

Disciplina

972.9/03

Soggetti

Slavery - West Indies, British

Plantation life - West Indies, British

Electronic books.

West Indies, British Social life and customs

West Indies History 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Beyond the Line; 2 Barbados: The Rise of the Planter Class; 3 Barbados: The Planters in Power; 4 The Leeward Islands; 5 Jamaica; 6 Sugar; 7 Slaves; 8 Life in the Tropics; 9 Death in the Tropics; 10 The Legacy; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z