Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 1623-1775Canoe Press, 1994 - 529 páginas This book covers the changing preference of growing sugar rather than tobacco which had been the leading crop in the trans-Atlantic colonies. The Sugar Islands were Antigua, Barbados, St. Christopher, Dominica, and Cuba through Trinidad. Jamaica has been by far the major producer of sugar, but The Lesser Antilles had the advantage of a shorter sea trip to deliver produce and rum to the European Markets during the 18th and 19th Centuries. |
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Contenido
Sugar and Slavery | xiii |
Four | xvi |
This | 35 |
Efforts to Close the Loopholes | 49 |
The Sugar Duties in England | 50 |
Planter Politics 17011775 | 54 |
The Planters Market Strategy | 55 |
Curbing the Interisland Trade | 57 |
Africas Ability to Supply Manpower | 253 |
Runaways and Rebels | 254 |
Slavery on Roaring River Plantation | 257 |
The Profitability of Slavery | 259 |
Conclusion | 260 |
Twelve The English Merchant as Banker 1 Introduction | 262 |
Plantation Capital Requirements | 264 |
The High Rate of Capital Depreciation | 266 |
The Planter Interest in the House of Commons | 58 |
The Members of Parliament | 60 |
The Planters Strategy in the House of Commons | 66 |
The Sugar Monopoly | 71 |
Conclusion | 74 |
Five | 75 |
Guyana and the Carribbees | 77 |
Problems Projects and Projectors | 80 |
The Courteen Brothers and Barbados | 81 |
Sir Marmaduke Royden and Barbados | 82 |
Early Settlement of St Christopher | 84 |
The Nevis Settlement | 86 |
Montserrat and Antigua | 87 |
Maurice Thompson | 88 |
Sir Martin Noell and Thomas Povey | 90 |
Conquest and Early Settlement of Jamaica | 92 |
Conclusion | 95 |
Six Geographic and Economic Influences 1 Introduction | 97 |
Origin and Dispersal | 98 |
Sugar Production in the American Tropics | 100 |
Location Factors | 102 |
The Role of Livestock | 105 |
Growing the Canes | 107 |
The Art of Making Sugar | 112 |
Stages in the Growth of the Sugar Economy | 118 |
The Geographic Base of Production | 122 |
Barbados The Brightest Jewel in Our Crown of Trade | 124 |
The Physical Setting | 125 |
The Sugar Revolution | 128 |
The Drift Toward Monoculture | 134 |
Conserving the Soil of Barbados | 140 |
The Slave Economy | 141 |
Further Estate Consolidation | 143 |
The Turning Away from Intensive Monoculture | 147 |
Eight His Majestys Leeward Islands Part I St Christopher Nevis Montserrat 1 The Collective View | 148 |
Descriptive Account | 149 |
Christopher Jeaffreson St Kitts Planter | 152 |
St Kitts in the French Wars | 154 |
The Settlement of the French Lands | 155 |
Further 18th Century Developments | 159 |
Descriptive Account | 161 |
Nevis Merchants and the Sugar Industry | 162 |
The Stapleton Plantations in Nevis | 164 |
The Pinneys of Nevis and Bristol | 167 |
John Herbert and Admiral Lord Nelson | 169 |
Descriptive Account | 170 |
The Political Anatomy of Montserrat | 172 |
Career Profiles of Montserrat Planters | 177 |
The Small Planters of Montserrat | 181 |
Conclusion | 183 |
Nine His Majestys Leeward Islands Part II Antigua 1 Introduction | 184 |
Samuel Winthrop Early Planter and Governor | 186 |
The Slow Recovery from the French Invasion | 189 |
The Plantocracy | 191 |
Economic Structure and Trends 170075 | 194 |
Dr Walter Tullideph Scottish Planter | 197 |
Colonel Samuel Martin of Greencastle Estate | 200 |
Descriptive Accounts by Two Scottish Visitors | 203 |
The NearMonoculture Regime | 205 |
Ten Jamaica The Fairest Island 1 The Physical Environment | 208 |
The Early Sugar Industry | 210 |
The War Years 16891713 | 214 |
Laggard Growth 171439 | 216 |
Expansion and Growth 174075 | 222 |
The Dawkins Estates | 224 |
William Beckford PlanterHistorian | 227 |
The Wealth of Jamaica | 229 |
Conclusion | 232 |
Eleven Slavery and Sugar 1 Introduction | 234 |
Indians and White Servants | 235 |
AfroCaribbean Economic History | 238 |
Stages in Caribbean Plantation Slavery | 241 |
The Dimensions of the Slave Trade | 245 |
Britains Leadership in the Slave Trade | 249 |
The Importance of Trade Credit | 269 |
DebtorCreditor Conflict | 274 |
The West India Loan Market | 278 |
Conclusion | 281 |
Thirteen The Planters Agent as Banker 1 Introduction | 282 |
17th Century Commission Agents | 285 |
The Credit Act of 1732 | 288 |
Changing Financial Methods | 290 |
The Loan Market in the West Indies | 294 |
Capital Drain or Capital Inflow? | 295 |
The Agents Concerned with Jamaica | 298 |
The Agents Concerned with the Lesser Antilles | 300 |
Conclusion | 305 |
Fourteen A Grand Marine Empire 1 The Plantation Base of Trade | 306 |
Dimensions of Trade | 308 |
Trade with the Mother Country and Ireland | 311 |
Trade with North America | 314 |
Trade with Africa and the Informal Empire | 316 |
Trading Methods | 319 |
The Merchant System | 322 |
The London Commission System | 328 |
Ships and Shipping | 332 |
Commission System and Other Branches of Trade | 335 |
Conclusion | 338 |
Fifteen Rum and Molasses in British Imperial Trade 1 Technological and Economic Possibilities | 339 |
17th Century Market Limitations | 340 |
18th Century Markets | 342 |
Markets in the Mother Country | 344 |
The Irish Rum Market | 350 |
Illicit Trade and Markets in North America | 352 |
Contributory Factors | 357 |
Conclusion | 358 |
Sixteen Planters and Plantership 1 Introduction | 360 |
The Nonconformists | 364 |
The Sephardic Jews | 366 |
The Scotsmen and Irishmen | 368 |
The Professionals and Administrators | 370 |
The Merchants | 374 |
The Art of Plantership | 377 |
Profit and Loss | 381 |
Absenteeism | 385 |
Conclusion | 387 |
Seventeen Booms and Slumps in War and Peace 16231713 | 389 |
Fluctuations in the Sugar Industry | 390 |
The Era of Minor Staples | 393 |
The Sugar Revolution | 395 |
The Impact of the Navigation Acts | 396 |
Barbados and the Recession of the 1680s | 398 |
The Leeward Islands and Jamaica | 402 |
Economic Fluctuations in Wartime | 404 |
King Williams War 168997 | 407 |
Queen Annes War 170213 | 409 |
Conclusion | 411 |
Eighteen The Drive to Monoculture 17141755 | 415 |
Postwar Prosperity 171420 | 419 |
The Uneven Twenties | 422 |
Recession and Recovery in the Thirties | 426 |
War and Trade 173948 | 433 |
Monoculture and Monopoly 174955 | 439 |
The New Informal Empire | 442 |
Conclusion | 445 |
Nineteen The Sugar Colonies and the Industrial Revolution 17561775 | 447 |
The Seven Years War | 448 |
The Ceded Islands | 452 |
The Free Port System | 459 |
The Credit Crisis of 1772 | 463 |
The West India Balance of Payments | 467 |
Profits and Absenteeism | 470 |
The Industrial Revolution | 475 |
Slavery and its Critics | 479 |
Appendices | 487 |
Select Bibiography | 507 |
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Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 1623-1775 Richard B. Sheridan Vista de fragmentos - 1974 |
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