| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados. By Russell R. Menard. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. xx, 181 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-8139-2540-1.)

There are few events in American history more important than the introduction of African chattel slavery and the establishment of the plantation system based on large-scale gang labor. Russell R. Menard, whose earlier work established vital facts about the introduction of slavery into the Chesapeake, turns his attention to the key region—early Barbados in the mid-seventeenth century—where the lineaments of the American slave system were first developed. In this short but provocative book he conclusively debunks historical orthodoxies at every juncture, most notably the notion that Barbados experienced a sugar revolution. The switch to sugar and then to slavery and then to the integrated plantation was more sudden in Barbados than in Virginia, but it was a process with a series of steps, each of which deserves study in its own right.

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