The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica

by Trvor Burnard, John Garrigus, Trevor Burnard

Book Overview

Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantation regimes were, to adopt a metaphor of the era, complex "machines," finely tuned over time by planters, merchants, and officials to become more efficient at exploiting their enslaved workers and serving their empires. Using a wide range of archival evidence, The Plantation Machine traces...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812248295
• ISBN13: 9780812248296
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"