The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820-1860

by Richard J. Follett

Book Overview

Focusing on the master-slave relationship in Louisiana's antebellum sugarcane country, The Sugar Masters explores how a modern, capitalist mind-set among planters meshed with old-style paternalistic attitudes to create one of the South's most insidiously oppressive labor systems. Richard Follett explains that in exchange for increased productivity and efficiency sugar planters offered their slaves a range of incentives, such as greater autonomy, improved...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807130389
• ISBN13: 9780807130384
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"