"Students need to understand how market demand for certain staple crops created plantations and the slave- and then indentured-labor system, and this book explains it. The third entry in the Cunliffe Series, it examines the cultivation of American tobacco, rice, sugar, and cotton in the context...

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The First Part: The Agricultural Wealth of Brazil in the Cultivation of Sugar -- Preamble -- Book 1 -- Chapter I: The Resources a Royal Sugar Mill Owner Should Possess -- Chapter II: How the Sugar Planter Should Act...