ABSTRACT

Originally published in 1917, this book is an investigation of industrial and social conditions in the British West Indies in the effort to reach a better understandinf of the part those islands played in the growth and dissolution of the British empire, including chapters on white labor in the sugar islands, the slave trade, and foreign markets for British sugar.

chapter Chapter I|41 pages

British West India Society in the Eighteenth Century

chapter Chapter II|19 pages

White Labor in the Sugar Islands

chapter Chapter III|30 pages

The Slave Trade

chapter Chapter V|19 pages

The Exclusion of Small Proprietors from Jamaica

chapter Chapter VI|29 pages

Capital, Credit, and Currency

chapter Chapter VII|10 pages

Foreign Markets for British Sugar

chapter Chapter XI|29 pages

The Molasses Act, 1730–1733

chapter Chapter XII|26 pages

Illicit Commerce, 1733–1748

chapter Chapter XIII|37 pages

Illicit Commerce, 1748–1763

chapter Chapter XIV|27 pages

The Peace of Paris