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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 “Sweet Negotiations: … More >>

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

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