Synopses & Reviews
Dunn's work is a model of contemporary historical research. He writes with admirable clarity.
London Financial Times Dunn's is rich social history, based on factual data brought to life by his use of contemporary narrative accounts.
Willie Lee Rose, New York Review of Books Professor Dunn has written an excellent book: not only is it informative, it is also readable.
Business History Review A masterly analysis of the Caribbean plantation slave society, its lifestyles, ethnic relations, afflictions, and peculiarities.
Journal of Modern History [This] elegantly written book is easily the finest on the subject and a major addition to colonial scholarship.
Journal of Economic History
Review
Dunn's is rich social history, based on factual data brought to life by his use of contemporary narrative accounts.
Willie Lee Rose, New York Review of Books
Review
Professor Dunn has written an excellent book: not only is it informative, it is also readable.
Business History Review
Review
A masterly analysis of the Caribbean plantation slave society, its lifestyles, ethnic relations, afflictions, and peculiarities.
Journal of Modern History
Review
[This] elegantly written book is easily the finest on the subject and a major addition to colonial scholarship.
Journal of Economic History
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
Drawing upon such sources as travelers' accounts, plantation records, census returns, wills, inventories, land patents, maps, and parish registers, Richard Dunn presents a composite portrait of plantation life in the Caribbean three centuries ago.
About the Author
Richard S. Dunn is director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Gary B. Nash
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