Caribbean Quarterly, Volumes 1-3Extra Mural Department of the University College of the West Indies, 1949 |
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Page 10
... Sugar is still supreme in the Caribbean . In the phrase of Dr. Eric Williams it is the spinal cord of Caribbean economy . Before the last war sugar was responsible for 60 per cent . of all exports from the Caribbean and for 68 per cent ...
... Sugar is still supreme in the Caribbean . In the phrase of Dr. Eric Williams it is the spinal cord of Caribbean economy . Before the last war sugar was responsible for 60 per cent . of all exports from the Caribbean and for 68 per cent ...
Page 110
... sugar , molasses , rum , cotton , lime juice , ginger , indigo , aloes , pimentos , turtle shell , mahogany , timber and plank " , was £ 30,000 . Estate - produced sugar was the most important crop of the 18th century . In 1787 , sugar ...
... sugar , molasses , rum , cotton , lime juice , ginger , indigo , aloes , pimentos , turtle shell , mahogany , timber and plank " , was £ 30,000 . Estate - produced sugar was the most important crop of the 18th century . In 1787 , sugar ...
Page 154
... sugar actually produced and ready for export . This reduced the need of supervision over the apprentices during the crop - taking , for it did not matter how they worked as long as the sugar was being made , and the more sugar that was ...
... sugar actually produced and ready for export . This reduced the need of supervision over the apprentices during the crop - taking , for it did not matter how they worked as long as the sugar was being made , and the more sugar that was ...
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