Sugar and slavery, family and race
Subtitle: the letters and diary of Pierre Dessalles, planter in Martinique, 1808-1856
By: edited and translated by Elborg Forster and Robert Forster.
Contributors: Forster, Elborg, 1931-; Forster, Robert, 1926-
Series: Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culture
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Dessalles, Pierre, 1785-1857.; Martinique -- Social life and customs.; Martinique -- Biography.
Description: "Two senior historians of ancien régime societies have deftly translated and introduced selected pages of this extraordinary diary left by a planter of old lineage who lived through momentous changes in Caribbean society and economy"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.