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The reinvention of Atlantic slavery : technology, labor, race, and capitalism in the greater Caribbean / Daniel B. Rood.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rood, Daniel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Economic aspects--Caribbean Area--History.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--Economic aspects--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- 'The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery' explores how, in an age of industry and abolition, ambitious planters in the Upper US South, Cuba, and Brazil expanded slavery by collaborating with a transnational group of chemists, engineers, and other 'plantation experts' to assist them in adapting the technologies of the Industrial Revolution to suit 'tropical' needs.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-065528-3
- 0-19-065529-1
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