African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
362 p, Contents: Sugar production and British Caribbean dependence on external markets, 1769-1776 -- The American war and the British Caribbean economy -- British policy, Canadian preference, and the West Indian economy, 1783-1810 -- The sugar market after 1775 -- Debt, decline, and the sugar industry, 1775-1810 -- New management techniques and planter reforms -- Hired slave labour -- British Caribbean slavery and abolition -- The sugar industry and eighteenth-century revolutions -- War, trade, and planter survival, 1793-1810 -- Profitability and decline: issues and concepts, an epilogue
"This essay aims to provide a systematic analysis of Cuban slave prices in the vital period of plantation growth in the mid-nineteenth century. The analysis also measures price differentials between male and female slaves and between African-- and native-born (creole) slaves with different occupations." (authors)
The book under review was mostly about United States slavery, but included information about the West Indies; on population and demography, emancipation, the Haitian slave revolt and the sugar trade. The book also included information about the Caribbean and South America in the chapter on "The International Context of U.S. Slavery," pp. 13-37
