Planters, Merchants, and Slaves : Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
American Beginnings, 1500-1900
ISBN-10
022663924X
ISBN-13
9780226639246
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 22nd, 2019
Print length
360 Pages
Weight
570 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 22.80 x 3.00 cms
Product Classification:
History of the AmericasColonialism & imperialismCultural studies
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As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. In the contentious Planters, Merchants, and Slaves, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop and maintain the plantation system out of virulent racism or sadism, but rather out of economic logic because--to speak bluntly--it worked. These economically successful and ethically monstrous plantations required racial divisions to exist, but their successes were measured in gold, rather than skin or blood. Sure to be controversial, this book is a major intervention in the scholarship on slavery, economic development, and political power in early British America, mounting a powerful and original argument that boldly challenges historical orthodoxy.
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