Social Control in Slave Plantation Societies: A Comparison of St. Domingue and Cuba

by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

First published in 1971, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall's comparison of two developing sugar plantation systems-St. Domingue's (Haiti) in the eighteenth century and Cuba's in the nineteenth century-changed the focus in comparative slavery studies. Hall establishes that slavery and race relations in any given time and place were determined by strategic needs, the raison d'etre of the colony, evolving economic and demographic factors, and above all, by the need...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000H609Y4
• ISBN13: 9780801812521
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.