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Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society

Bahia, 1550-1835

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Paperback | 21 April 1986

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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. Drawing on little-used archival sources, plantations accounts, and notarial records, Professor Schwartz has examined through both quantitative and qualitative methods the various groups that made up plantation society. While he devotes much attention to masters and slaves, he views slavery ultimately as part of a larger structure of social and economic relations. The peculiarities of sugar-making and the nature of plantation labour are used throughout the book as keys to an understanding of roles and relationships in plantation society. A comparative perspective is also employed, so that studies of slavery elsewhere in the Americas inform the analysis, while at many points direct comparisons of the Bahian case with other plantation societies are also made.

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'Sugar Plantation is a major contribution to our efforts to understand Bahia and its sugar and slaveholding system. It is required readin not only for specialists in Brazilian history, but for anyone interested in the question of slavery and race relations in the Americas.' Francis A. Dutra, Hispanic American Historical Review 'Clearly destined to become a classic in the field.' Eric Van Young, Agricultural History

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List of figures, maps, and tables
Preface
Abbreviations and special terms
Weights and measures
Formations, 1500-1600
The sugar plantation: from the Old World to the New
A wasted generation: commercial agriculture and Indian laborers
First slavery: from Indian to African
The Bahian Engenhos and their World
The Rec(ncavo
Safra: the ways of sugar making
Workers in the cane, workers at the mill
The Bahian sugar trade to 1750
A noble business: profits and costs
Sugar Society
A colonial slave society
The planters: masters of men and cane
The cane farmers
Wage workers in a slave economy
The Bahian slave population
The slave family and the limitations of slavery
Reorientation and Persistence, 1750-1835
Resurgence
The structure of Bahian slaveholding
Important occasions: the war to end Bahian slavery
Appendixes
Notes
Glossary
Sources and selected bibliography
Sources of figures
Index
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Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society

Bahia, 1550-1835

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