Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society

Description:

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.

subjects: Economic conditions,  History,  Plantations,  Race relations,  Slavery,  Social conditions,  Sugar trade,  Slavery, brazil,  Brazil, race relations,  Brazil, social conditions,  Brazil, economic conditions

Places: Bahia (Brazil : State),  Bahia (State),  Brazil