The History, Civil and Commercial, of the West Indies

Book IV. Present Inhabitants: 1. Summary account of the inhabitants of the several islands; 2. Of Negroes in a state of slavery; 3. Mandingoes, or natives of the Windward Coast; 4. Means of obtaining slaves in Africa; 5. Arrival and sale in the West Indies; Appendixes; Book V. Agriculture: 1. Sugar cane; 2. Crop-time the season of health and festivity; 3. Capital necessary in the settlement or purchase of a sugar plantation of a given extent; 4. Of the minor staple commodities; Appendix; Book VI. Government and Commerce: 1. Colonial establishments; 2. House of Assembly; 3. Principles on which the nations of Europe settled colonies in America; 4. Trade between the British West Indies and North America previous to the late civil war; 5. Charges brought against the planters introductory of opinions and doctrines the design of which is to prove, that the settlement of the British plantations was improvident and unwise; Appendix containing tables of West Indian exports and imports to and from Great Britain and Ireland.