What Were the Economic Foundations of the British West Indies

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Essay

What were the economic foundations of the British West Indies? How did the planters on the islands maintain a labor supply? How did the "sugar revolution" transform the British Caribbean colonies into "a starkly unequal world of haves and have-nots"?

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