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

by Richard J. Follett

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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"

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Business Business & Investing History Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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