Title: Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society
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.
Subjects: Economic conditions, History, Plantations, Race relations, Slavery, Social conditions, Sugar trade, Slavery, brazil, Brazil, race relations, Brazil, social conditions, Brazil, economic conditions
Places: Bahia (Brazil : State), Bahia (State), Brazil