An edition of The Plantation Machine (2016)
Plantation Machine
Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica
By Trevor G. Burnard,John D. Garrigus
Publish Date
2016
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Language
eng
Pages
360
Description:
Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. Using a wide range of archival evidence, The Plantation Machine traces a critical half-century in the development of the social, economic, and political frameworks that made these societies possible.
subjects: Slavery, caribbean area, Plantations, History, Economic conditions, Social conditions, Histoire, Conditions économiques, Conditions sociales, Caribbean & West Indies, General, Economic history, Plantations--history, Plantations--haiti--history, Plantations--jamaica--history, Enslavement--history, Enslaved persons--history, Hd1329.c27 b87 2016, 306.3/4909729, Enslavement, Enslaved Persons