The Plantation Machine

The Plantation Machine
Author: Trevor Burnard
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2016-06-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812248295


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Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus trace how the plantation machine developed between 1748 and 1788 and was perfected against a backdrop of almost constant external war and imperial competition.


The Plantation Machine
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Trevor Burnard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-21 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. Trevor Burnard and John
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-21 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Pages: 367
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Pages: 553
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Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-04 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Pages: 400
Authors: S. Max Edelson
Categories: History
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This impressive scholarly debut deftly reinterprets one of America's oldest symbols--the southern slave plantation. S. Max Edelson examines the relationships be