The Sugar Barons
Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies
Sugar trade
Caribbean area, history
Great britain, colonies, history
Plantations
British colonies
Colonies
Commerce
Economic history
Economic conditions
History
To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent and shocking history. For some two hundred years after 1650, the West Indies were the strategic center of the Western world's greatest power struggles as Europeans made and lost immen…
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