... Indian slavery and trade. In his Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, Raynal propounded a theory of imperial corruption and decline centered on the Caribbean sugar revolution and the Atlantic slave trade. Behn...

..., constitute what is called the “sugar revolution.”. This chapter provides a historical overview of the sugar economies in the early Atlantic colonies. It discusses the sugar plantation system and its development as part of the “sugar revolution.” Atlantic economy origins of Atlantic slave trade and sugar...