Reconstructing the landscapes of slavery a visual history of the plantation in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world / Dale W. Tomich, Rafael de Bivar Marquese, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Carlos Venegas Fornias.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tomich, Dale W., 1946- author.

Venegas Fornias, Carlos, 1946- author.

Funes Monzote, Reinaldo, 1969- author.

Marquese, Rafael de Bivar, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Economic aspects.

Plantations.

Slavery--Economic aspects--Brazil--Paraibuna River Valley.

Slavery.

Slavery--Economic aspects--Cuba.

Slavery--Economic aspects--Mississippi River Valley.

Plantations--Brazil--Paraibuna River Valley--Pictorial works.

Plantations--Cuba--Pictorial works.

Plantations--Mississippi River Valley--Pictorial works.

Plantations--Brazil--Paraibuna River Valley--History--19th century.

Plantations--Cuba--History--19th century.

Plantations--Mississippi River Valley--History--19th century.

Mississippi River Valley.

Cuba.

Brazil--Paraibuna River Valley.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 161 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. These landscapes-from cotton fields in the Lower Mississippi Valley to sugar plantations in western Cuba and coffee plantations in Brazil's Paraíba Valley-demonstrate how the restructuring of the capitalist world economy led to the formation of new zones of commodity production. By extension, these environments radically transformed slave labor and the role such labor played in the expansion of the global economy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Map, Table, and Figures

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION. Cotton, Sugar, Coffee, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century Slave Plantations

PART I. Making Landscapes: New Atlantic Commodity Frontiers

1. The Lower Mississippi Valley Cotton Frontier

2. The Cuban Sugar Frontier

3. The Brazilian Coffee Frontier

PART II. Spatial Economies and Plantation Landscapes

4. The Lower Mississippi Valley Cotton Plantation

5. The Cuban Ingenio

6. The Brazilian Coffee Fazenda

CONCLUSION. Geometries of Exploitation

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

979-88-908604-4-6

979-88-908604-5-3

1-4696-6312-0

OCLC:

1243325207