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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.
Subjects:
Plantations > Mississippi River Valley > History > 19th century.
Plantations > Cuba > History > 19th century.
Plantations > Brazil > Paraibuna River Valley > History > 19th century.
Plantations > Mississippi River Valley > Pictorial works.
Plantations > Cuba > Pictorial works.
Plantations > Brazil > Paraibuna River Valley > Pictorial works.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Mississippi River Valley.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Cuba.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Brazil > Paraibuna River Valley.
Slavery > Economic aspects.
Plantations.
Mississippi River Valley.
Cuba.
Brazil > Paraibuna River Valley.
Pictorial works.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Map, Table, and Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION. Cotton, Sugar, Coffee, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century Slave Plantations
  • PART I. Making Landscapes: New Atlantic Commodity Frontiers
  • 1. The Lower Mississippi Valley Cotton Frontier
  • 2. The Cuban Sugar Frontier
  • 3. The Brazilian Coffee Frontier
  • PART II. Spatial Economies and Plantation Landscapes
  • 4. The Lower Mississippi Valley Cotton Plantation
  • 5. The Cuban Ingenio
  • 6. The Brazilian Coffee Fazenda
  • CONCLUSION. Geometries of Exploitation
  • Notes.

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