Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados

Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados
ISBN-10
0813925401
ISBN-13
9780813925400
Category
Agriculture
Pages
181
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Author
Russell R. Menard

Description

Russell Menard argues that the emergence of black slavery in Barbados preceded the rise of sugar. He shows that Barbados was well on its way to becoming a plantation colony and a slave society before sugar emerged as the dominant crop. He sheds light on the origins of the integrated plantation, gang labour, and slave economy.

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