Collected articles by Menard (U. of Minnesota) trace the transition from a colonial American work force dominated by English indentured servants to one dominated by African slaves. His central argumen
Intending at first simply to do further research on the mid-seventeenth-century "sugar revolution" in Barbados, Russell Menard traveled to the island. But once there, he quickly found many discrepanci
By the American Revolution, the farmers and city-dwellers of British America had achieved, individually and collectively, considerable prosperity. The nature and extent of that success are still unfol
