The Sugar Masters

Author : Richard Follett
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807132470

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The Sugar Masters by Richard Follett Pdf

Focusing on the master-slave relationship in Louisiana's antebellum sugarcane country, The Sugar Masters explores how a modern, capitalist mind-set among planters meshed with old-style paternalistic attitudes to create one of the South's most insidiously oppressive labor systems. As author Richard Follett vividly demonstrates, the agricultural paradise of Louisiana's thriving sugarcane fields came at an unconscionable cost to slaves. Thanks to technological and business innovations, sugar planters stood as models of capitalist entrepreneurship by midcentury. But above all, labor management was the secret to their impressive success. Follett explains how in exchange for increased productivity and efficiency they offered their slaves a range of incentives, such as greater autonomy, improved accommodations, and even financial remuneration. These material gains, however, were only short term. According to Follett, many of Louisiana's sugar elite presented their incentives with a "facade of paternal reciprocity" that seemingly bound the slaves' interests to the apparent goodwill of the masters, but in fact, the owners sought to control every aspect of the slaves's lives, from reproduction to discretionary income. Slaves responded to this display of paternalism by trying to enhance their rights under bondage, but the constant bargaining process invariably led to compromises on their part, and the grueling production pace never relented. The only respite from their masters' demands lay in fashioning their own society, including outlets for religion, leisure, and trade. Until recently, scholars have viewed planters as either paternalistic lords who eschewed marketplace values or as entrepreneurs driven to business success. Follett offers a new view of the sugar masters as embracing both the capitalist market and a social ideology based on hierarchy, honor, and paternalism. His stunning synthesis of empirical research, demographics study, and social and cultural history sets a new standard for this subject.

Author : Andrea Stuart
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307272836

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Sugar in the Blood by Andrea Stuart Pdf

From the author of an acclaimed biography of Josephine Bonaparte: a stunning history of the interdependence of sugar, slavery, and colonial settlement in the New World--from the 17th century to the present.

Author : William Dusinberre
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0820322105

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Them Dark Days by William Dusinberre Pdf

Them Dark Days is a study of the callous, capitalistic nature of the vast rice plantations along the southeastern coast. It is essential reading for anyone whose view of slavery’s horrors might be softened by the current historical emphasis on slave community and family and slave autonomy and empowerment. Looking at Gowrie and Butler Island plantations in Georgia and Chicora Wood in South Carolina, William Dusinberre considers a wide range of issues related to daily life and work there: health, economics, politics, dissidence, coercion, discipline, paternalism, and privilege. Based on overseers’ letters, slave testimonies, and plantation records, Them Dark Days offers a vivid reconstruction of slavery in action and casts a sharp new light on slave history.

Author : Matthew Parker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802777997

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The Sugar Barons by Matthew Parker Pdf

To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent and shocking history. For some 200 years after 1650, the West Indies were the strategic center of the western world, witnessing one of the greatest power struggles of the age as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar-a commodity so lucrative it became known as "white gold." As Matthew Parker vividly chronicles in his sweeping history, the sugar revolution made the English, in particular, a nation of voracious consumers-so much so that the wealth of her island colonies became the foundation and focus of England's commercial and imperial greatness, underpinning the British economy and ultimately fueling the Industrial Revolution. Yet with the incredible wealth came untold misery: the horror endured by slaves, on whose backs the sugar empire was brutally built; the rampant disease that claimed the lives of one-third of all whites within three years of arrival in the Caribbean; the cruelty, corruption, and decadence of the plantation culture. While sugar came to dictate imperial policy, for those on the ground the British West Indian empire presented a disturbing moral universe. Parker brilliantly interweaves the human stories of those since lost to history whose fortunes and fame rose and fell with sugar. Their industry drove the development of the North American mainland states, and with it a slave culture, as the plantation model was exported to the warm, southern states. Broad in scope, rich in detail, The Sugar Barons freshly links the histories of Europe, the West Indies, and North America and reveals the full impact of the sugar revolution, the resonance of which is still felt today.

Author : Marcelo D'Salete
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Black people
ISBN : 9781683961918

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Angola Janga by Marcelo D'Salete Pdf

An independent kingdom of runaway slaves founded in the late 16th century, Angola Janga was a beacon of freedom in a land plagued with oppression. In stark black ink and chiaroscuro panel compositions, D’Salete brings history to life; the painful stories of fugitive slaves on the run, the brutal raids by Portuguese colonists, and the tense power struggles within this precarious kingdom. At turns heartbreaking and empowering, Angola Janga sheds light on a long-overlooked moment of resistance against oppression.

Author : Charles Pierce Roland
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Freed persons
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Louisiana Sugar Plantations During the American Civil War by Charles Pierce Roland Pdf

This early work by the esteemed historian Charles P. Roland draws from an abundance of primary sources to describe how the Civil War brought south Louisiana's sugarcane industry to the brink of extinction, and disaster to the lives of civilians both black and white. A gifted raconteur, Roland sets the scene where the Louisiana cane country formed "a favored and colorful part of the Old South," and then unfolds the series of events that changed it forever: secession, blockade, invasion, occupation, emancipation, and defeat. Though sugarcane survived, production did not match prewar levels for twenty-five years. Roland's approach is both illustrative of an earlier era and remarkably seminal to current emancipation studies. He displays sympathy for plantation owners' losses, but he considers as well the sufferings of women, slaves, and freedmen, yielding a rich study of the social, cultural, economic, and agricultural facets of Louisiana's sugar plantations during the Civil War

Author : Stuart B. Schwartz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521313996

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Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society by Stuart B. Schwartz Pdf

Colonial Brazil was a multiracial society, profoundly influenced by slavery and the plantation system. This study examines the history of the sugar economy and the peculiar development of plantation society over a three hundred year period in Bahia, a major sugar-plantation zone and an important terminus of the Atlantic slave trade.

Author : Caitlin Rosenthal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674241657

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Accounting for Slavery by Caitlin Rosenthal Pdf

Caitlin Rosenthal explores quantitative management practices on West Indian and Southern plantations, showing how planter-capitalists built sophisticated organizations and used complex accounting tools. By demonstrating that business innovation can be a byproduct of bondage Rosenthal further erodes the false boundary between capitalism and slavery.

Author : Gilberto Freyre
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0520056655

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Casa-grande E Senzala by Gilberto Freyre Pdf

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1663604584

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Sugar Changed the World a Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science by Perfection Learning Corporation Pdf

When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran like a bright band from religious ceremonies in India to Europe's Middle Ages, then on to Columbus, who brought the first cane cuttings to the Americas. Sugar was the substance that drove the bloody slave trade and caused the loss of countless lives, but it also planted the seeds of revolution that led to freedom in the American colonies, Haiti, and France. With songs, oral histories, maps, and more than eighty archival illustrations, here is the story of bow one product moved the grand currents of world history. Book jacket.

Author : Francisco Antonio Scarano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Haciendas
ISBN : 0608099252

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Sugar and Slavery in Puerto Rico by Francisco Antonio Scarano Pdf

Author : Jacques Roumain
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0435987453

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Masters of the Dew by Jacques Roumain Pdf

This outstanding Haitian novel tells of Manuel's struggle to keep his little community from starvation during drought.

Author : Noël Deerr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005659268

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The History of Sugar by Noël Deerr Pdf

Author : Steven Deyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190294960

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Carry Me Back by Steven Deyle Pdf

Originating with the birth of the nation itself, in many respects, the story of the domestic slave trade is also the story of the early United States. While an external traffic in slaves had always been present, following the American Revolution this was replaced by a far more vibrant internal trade. Most importantly, an interregional commerce in slaves developed that turned human property into one of the most valuable forms of investment in the country, second only to land. In fact, this form of property became so valuable that when threatened with its ultimate extinction in 1860, southern slave owners believed they had little alternative but to leave the Union. Therefore, while the interregional trade produced great wealth for many people, and the nation, it also helped to tear the country apart. The domestic slave trade likewise played a fundamental role in antebellum American society. Led by professional traders, who greatly resembled northern entrepreneurs, this traffic was a central component in the market revolution of the early nineteenth century. In addition, the development of an extensive local trade meant that the domestic trade, in all its configurations, was a prominent feature in southern life. Yet, this indispensable part of the slave system also raised many troubling questions. For those outside the South, it affected their impression of both the region and the new nation. For slaveholders, it proved to be the most difficult part of their institution to defend. And for those who found themselves commodities in this trade, it was something that needed to be resisted at all costs. Carry Me Back restores the domestic slave trade to the prominent place that it deserves in early American history, exposing the many complexities of southern slavery and antebellum American life.

Author : Richard Burleigh Kimball,Cristóbal F. Madan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Cuba
ISBN : CHI:35294649

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Cuba, and the Cubans by Richard Burleigh Kimball,Cristóbal F. Madan Pdf