The Development of the Plantations to 1750; An Era of West Indian Prosperity, 1750-1775

Sheridan, Richard B., The Development of the Plantations to 1750; An Era of West Indian Prosperity, 1750-1775, Chapters in Caribbean History 1, Barbados: Caribbean Universities, 1970.

From the Richard B. Sheridan Collection, at the University of the West Indies (Mona Campus):

Richard Sheridan made distinguished contribution to Caribbean historiography and was a pre-eminent economic historian. His work was largely an analysis of British West Indian trade within the context of the Atlantic economy, where he argued the importance of the West Indies to the accumulation of wealth in Europe. He made significant contribution to the study of Caribbean slavery and slave society and authored two major works:-Sugar and Slavery: An economic History of West Indies,1623-1775 and Doctors and Slavery: A Medical and Demographic History of Slavery in the British West Indies,1680-1834-as well as several seminal articles.