Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion

Robert L. Paquette is president and executive director of The Alexander Hamilton Institute in Clinton, New York. He is coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas and the author of Sugar Is Made with Blood: The Conspiracy of La Escalera and the Conflict between Empires over Slavery in Cuba, which won the Elsa Goveia Prize in Caribbean history.Stanley L. Engerman (1936-2023) was John H. Munro Professor of Economics and professor of history at the University of Rochester. Among the many books he coauthored or coedited are Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, which won the Bancroft Prize, and British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery.