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Caribbean and the slave trade  

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  • This entry examines the origins of modern Western consumer culture in the consumption of Caribbean plantation commodities within a slavery-based transatlantic economy. It encompasses the sixteenth to twentieth centuries, but places the main emphasis on British consumer culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture; Caribbean and the Slave Trade]

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