Cover Image

Sweet negotiations : sugar, slavery, and plantation agriculture in early Barbados /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Menard, Russell R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Agriculture > Economic aspects > Barbados > History > 17th century.
Sugar trade > Barbados > History > 17th century.
Slavery > Barbados > History > 17th century.
Plantations > Barbados > History > 17th century.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • The export boom in Barbados
  • Land and labor during the export boom
  • Who financed the sugar boom?
  • The growth of the Barbadian sugar industry over the seventeenth century
  • Origins of the Barbadian plantation complex
  • The expansion of Barbados
  • Epilogue: rethinking the sugar revolution.