Reconstructing the landscapes of slavery : a visual history of the plantation in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world / Dale W. Tomich, Rafael de Bivar Marquese, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Carlos Venegas Fornias.

"Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. These landscapes-from cotton fields in the Lower Mississippi Valley to sugar plantations in w...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Authors: Tomich, Dale W., 1946- (Author), Marquese, Rafael de Bivar, 1972- (Author), Funes Monzote, Reinaldo, 1969- (Author), Venegas Fornias, Carlos, 1946- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
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Summary:"Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. These landscapes-from cotton fields in the Lower Mississippi Valley to sugar plantations in western Cuba and coffee plantations in Brazil's Paraíba Valley-demonstrate how the restructuring of the capitalist world economy led to the formation of new zones of commodity production. By extension, these environments radically transformed slave labor and the role such labor played in the expansion of the global economy"--
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1469663147
9781469663142
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 26, 2021)