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Slaves with or without Sugar

Name: Slaves with or without Sugar
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ISBN: 9789726481119

Registers of the International Seminar, Funchal 1996

by Alberto Vieira · 1996 edition

An English-language volume edited by Madeira historian Alberto Vieira on the relationship between enslaved labour and the sugar economy in Madeira and the wider Atlantic.

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Author: Alberto Vieira
Edition year: 1996
Publisher: Centro de Estudos de História do Atlântico (CEHA)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 9789726481119

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