Sugar plantations in the formation of Brazilian society
Subtitle: Bahia, 1550-1835
By: Stuart B. Schwartz.
Series: Cambridge Latin American studies ;; 52
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 616
Subjects: Sugar trade -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) -- History.; Plantations -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) -- History.; Slavery -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) -- History.; Bahia (Brazil : State) -- Race relations.; Bahia (Brazil : State) -- Social conditions.; Bahia (Brazil : State) -- Economic conditions.
Description: Colonial Brazil was a multiracial society, profoundly influenced by slavery and the plantation system. This study examines the history of the sugar economy and the peculiar development of plantation society over a three hundred year period in Bahia, a major sugar-plantation zone and an important terminus of the Atlantic slave trade.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 581-592.
Includes index.