As we mark  the 50th anniversary of Richard S. Dunn’s path-breaking book Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624–1713, we wish to draw attention to the myriad ways Dunn’s work influenced subsequent scholars in the field, including many Early American Studies authors. Dunn’s pioneering social history on the English West Indies not only depicted the rise of a powerful white planter class, it also revealed much about the daily lives of both colonizers and the enslaved. The authors of the articles in this resource guide, including articles that were part of the fall 2022 issue honoring Sugar and Slaves, take many cues from Dunn’s work. Yet these articles also reveal the dynamic development of the field over time.  

Title	Author	Vol/Iss – Season, Year
The Limits of Fear: The Saint Dominguan Challenge to Slave Trade Abolition in the United States	White, Ashli	2/2 – Fall, 2004
Doctoring Ideology: James Grainger’s The Sugar Cane and the Bodies of Empire	Thomas, Steven W.	4/1 – Spring, 2006
A ‘Dangerous Principle’: Free Trade Discourses in Barbados and the English Leeward Islands, 1650-1689	Koot, Christian J.	5/1 – Spring, 2007
The Port Royal Earthquake and the World of Wonders in Seventeenth-Century Jamaica	Mulcahy, Matthew	6/2 – Fall, 2008
Late Seventeenth-Century Spanish Town, Jamaica: Building an English City on Spanish Foundations	Robertson, James	6/2 – Fall, 2008
The Subject of the Slave Trade: Recent Currents in the Histories of the Atlantic, Great Britain, and Western Africa	Wood Sweet, John	7/1 – Spring, 2009
Enslaved Merchants, Enslaved Merchant-Mariners, and the Bermuda Conspiracy of 1761	Maxwell, Clarence	7/1 – Spring, 2009
Markets and Morality: Intersections of Economy, Ethics, and Religion in Early North America: Special Issue Introduction	Matson, Cathy	8/3 – Fall, 2010
A Wealth of Notions: Interpreting Economy and Morality in Early America	Clark, Christopher	8/3 – Fall, 2010
Benign and Benevolent Conquest? The Ideology of Elizabethan Atlantic Expansion Revisited	MacMillan, Ken	9/1 – Winter, 2011
“That Abominable Nest of Pirates”: St. Eustatius and the North Americans, 1680-1780	Enthoven, Victor	10/2 – Spring, 2012
“One Indian and a Negroe, the first thes Ilands ever had”: Imagining the Archive in Early Bermuda	Miyano Kopelson, Heather	11/2 – Spring, 2013
Plantation Ecologies: The Experimental Plantation in and against James Grainger’s “The Sugar-Cane”	Rupert, Britt	13/2 – Spring, 2015
“This Week Black Paul Preach’d”: Fragment and Method in Early African American Studies	Saillant, John	14/1 – Winter, 2016
Chasing Capital in Hard Times: Monroe Edwards, Slavery, and Sovereignty in the Panicked Atlantic	Luskey, Brian P.	14/1 – Winter, 2016
Privileging Kinship: Family and Race in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica	Livesay, Daniel	14/4 – Fall, 2016
“All the baubles that they needed”: “Industriousness” and Slavery in Saint-Louis and Goree	Everill, Bronwen	15/4 – Fall, 2017
Timbering and Turtling: The Maritime Hinterlands of Early Modern British Caribbean Cities	Draper, Mary	15/4 – Fall, 2017
Towns in Plantation Societies in Eighteenth-Century British America	Burnard, Trevor	15/4 – Fall, 2017
Negotiating Race and Status in Senegal, Saint Domingue, and South Carolina: Marie-Adelaide Rossignol and Her Descendants	Force, Pierre; Dick Hoffius, Susan	16/1 – Winter, 2018
The Enslaved Ants and the Peculiar Institution: Argument by Analogy in the Slavery Question	Minella, Timothy K.	17/2 – Spring, 2019
Conquest for Commerce: American Policymakers, Bermuda, and the War for Independence, 1775-83	DiPucchio, Nicholas G.	18/1 – Winter, 2020
Endangered Plantations: Environmental Change and Slavery in the British Caribbean, 1631-1807	Johnston, Katherine	18/3 – Summer, 2020
Enquire of the Printer: Newspaper Advertising and the Moral Economy of the North American Slave Trade, 1704-1807	Taylor, Jordan E.	18/3 – Summer, 2020
Security, Taxation, and the Imperial System in Jamaica, 1721-1782	Burnard, Trevor; Graham, Aaron	18/4 – Fall, 2020
“The reasonable sustentation of human life”: Food Rations and the Problem of Provision in British Caribbean Slavery	Crawford, Nicholas	19/2 – Spring, 2021
Introduction: Sugar and Slaves after Fifty Years	Burnard, Trevor; Games, Alison	20/4 – Fall, 2022
Distance and Blame: The Rise of the English Planter Class	Gardina Pestana, Carla	20/4 – Fall, 2022
The Rise of “King Sugar” and Enslaved Labor in Early English Jamaica	Zahedieh, Nuala	20/4 – Fall, 2022
“Plantation,” the Public Good, and the Rise of Capitalist Agriculture in the Early Seventeenth-Century Caribbean	Musselwhite, Paul	20/4 – Fall, 2022
Not “Beyond the line”: Reconsidering Law and Power and the Origins of Slavery in England’s Empire in the Americas	Brewer, Holly	20/4 – Fall, 2022
“Greater Numbers of Fair and Lovely Women”: White Women and the Barbadian Demographic Crisis, 1673–1715	Sackett, Emily	20/4 – Fall, 2022
“Corruption of the Air”: Yellow Fever and Malaria in the Rise of English Caribbean Slavery	Roberts, Justin	20/4 – Fall, 2022
Aeolian Geographies, Daily Life, and Empire Building in the English Caribbean	Draper, Mary	20/4 – Fall, 2022
“Brought from the Palenques”: Race, Subjecthood, and Warfare in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean	Schmitt, Casey	20/4 – Fall, 2022
“The Native Produce of this Island”: Processes of Invention in Early Barbados	Smith, Jordan B.	20/4 – Fall, 2022
“Sad as Horrour, Black as Hell”: The Parke Murder, the Catiline Conspiracy, and the Wentworth Execution	Zacek, Natalie	20/4 – Fall, 2022
Sugar Planters and Freedom Seekers in Seventeenth-Century London	Newman, Simon P.	20/4 – Fall, 2022