Plantation Machine
Subtitle: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780812248296
Subjects: Plantations; Slavery, caribbean area
Description: Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. Using a wide range of archival evidence, The Plantation Machine traces a critical half-century in the development of the social, economic, and political frameworks that made these societies possible.