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

The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.

This study deals with the economic and political impact of the American War of Independence (1775-1783) on the development of the British West Indian colonies.

There were 26—not 13—British colonies in America in 1776. Of these, the six colonies in the Caribbean—Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Grenada and