Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society Bahia, 1550-1835

Name: Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society Bahia, 1550-1835
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ISBN: 9780521313995

ISBN-10: 0521313996

ISBN-13: 9780521313995

Edition: 1985

Authors: Stuart B. Schwartz, Alan Knight

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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…

Book details

List price: $52.99
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/31/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 644
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Stuart B. Schwartz is the George Burton Adams Professor of History and chair of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University. His many books include "All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World".



List of figures, maps, and tables


Preface


Abbreviations and special terms


Weights and measures



Formations, 1500-1600



The sugar plantation: from the Old World to the New



A wasted generation: commercial agriculture and Indian laborers



First slavery: from Indian to African



The Bahian Engenhos and their World



The Rec(ncavo



Safra: the ways of sugar making



Workers in the cane, workers at the mill



The Bahian sugar trade to 1750



A noble business: profits and costs



Sugar Society



A colonial slave society



The planters: masters of men and cane



The cane farmers



Wage workers in a slave economy



The Bahian slave population



The slave family and the limitations of slavery



Reorientation and Persistence, 1750-1835



Resurgence



The structure of Bahian slaveholding



Important occasions: the war to end Bahian slavery


Appendixes


Notes


Glossary


Sources and selected bibliography


Sources of figures


Index