A Bahian Counterpoint: Sugar, Tobacco, Cassava, and Slavery in the Recôncavo, 1780-1860

by B.J. Barickman

This book integrates research on the production and marketing of basic foodstuffs for local needs into an investigation of slavery and export agriculture. It opens new perspectives for understanding how, during more than three centuries, slavery, plantations, and export agriculture shaped social and economic life in Brazil.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804726329
• ISBN13: 9780804726320
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"