Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 »

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.

Journal of Modern History

A masterly analysis of the Caribbean plantation slave society, its lifestyles, ethnic relations, afflictions, and peculiarities.

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