Böcker av Russell R. Menard

Reveals that black slavery's emergence in Barbados preceded the rise of sugar; in doing so Russell Menard both reverses the long-held understanding of slavery as a consequence of the island's economic boom and repositions the impact that this surge of slavery had on America's slave trade.

In this first comprehensive assessment of where research on prerevolutionary economy stands, what it seeks to achieve, and how it might best proceed, the authors discuss those areas in which traditional work remains to be done and address new possibilities for a "new economic history".

These essays explore unfree labour in colonial British America, and the transition from a workforce dominated by English indentured servants to one dominated by African slaves. It argues that this transition was an economic process, driven by changes in the supply of labour.