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. As author Richard Follett vividly demonstrates, the agricultural paradise of Louisiana's thriving sugarcane fields came at an unconscionable cost to slaves.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807132470
• ISBN13: 9780807132470
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"