Sugar and Slavery

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Sugar and Slavery

Author	: Richard B. Sheridan
File Size	: 48,5 Mb
Publisher	: Canoe Press (IL)
Language	: English
Release Date	: 07 May 1994
ISBN	: 9768125136
Pages	: 572 pages

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Sugar and Slavery by Richard B. Sheridan Book PDF Summary

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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