Plantation Societies in the Era of European Expansion
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0860785068
ISBN-13
9780860785064
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 3rd, 1997
Print length
370 Pages
Weight
453 grams
Ksh 22,500.00
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This volume comprises 12 articles concerning the rise and fall of plantation societies and their associations with European imperial expansion overseas. It examines the kind of slavery associated with New World plantations which differed from its Old World counterparts in Europe.
The emergence of a widespread ’plantation complex’, in which slave labour produced crops such as sugar on large estates funded by European capital, was a phenomenon of the New World. This book shows how the institution of slavery was transformed by the demand for labour in the Americas, to fill the gap between conquerors and vanquished Indians and to work in mines, workshops, ranches and, above all, on the new plantations that were established to exploit the empty lands. The essays use quantitative methodology to draw conclusions about slave existence and demography, and examine the profitability and varying degrees of harshness of slave systems in different regions. They also consider the questions of manumission and slave resistance.
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