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

by Russell R. Menard

Book Overview

Intending at first simply to do further research on the mid-seventeenth-century "sugar revolution" in Barbados, Russell Menard traveled to the island. But once there, he quickly found many discrepancies between the historical understanding of the way in which this "revolution" fueled the institution of slavery and the actual, quotidian, records documenting the prominence of slavery on the island even before sugar spurred its economic growth. In...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813937140
• ISBN13: 9780813937144
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"