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  3. Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2010
Print publication year:
1986
Online ISBN:
9780511665271
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511665271
Subjects:
Area Studies, Latin American Studies, History, Regional History after 1500, Latin American Government, Politics and Policy, Latin American History
Series:
Cambridge Latin American Studies (52)
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Book description

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. Drawing on little-used archival sources, plantations accounts, and notarial records, Professor Schwartz has examined through both quantitative and qualitative methods the various groups that made up plantation society. While he devotes much attention to masters and slaves, he views slavery ultimately as part of a larger structure of social and economic relations. The peculiarities of sugar-making and the nature of plantation labour are used throughout the book as keys to an understanding of roles and relationships in plantation society. A comparative perspective is also employed, so that studies of slavery elsewhere in the Americas inform the analysis, while at many points direct comparisons of the Bahian case with other plantation societies are also made.

Reviews

'Sugar Plantation is a major contribution to our efforts to understand Bahia and its sugar and slaveholding system. It is required readin not only for specialists in Brazilian history, but for anyone interested in the question of slavery and race relations in the Americas.'

Francis A. Dutra Source: Hispanic American Historical Review

'Clearly destined to become a classic in the field.'

Eric Van Young Source: Agricultural History

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