African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
520 p, The British Caribbean planters had reached their “prosperity” by 1763. However, “prosperity” was not won based on the monopoly of supply the country and British-American land; profits where made “under an absentee system.” The first part of the books is an introduction of the “old plantation and the decline of the sugar islands.
