ISBN:
9780226286242
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
,
Illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).
Series Statement:
American beginnings, 1500-1900
DDC:
306.349097
Keywords:
Geschichte 1650-1820
;
Plantagenwirtschaft
;
Sklaverei
;
Plantations History
;
Plantations History
;
Slavery History
;
Britisch-Nordamerika
;
North America History Colonial period, ca
Abstract:
As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond resources and weapons, a plantation required a significant force of cruel and rapacious men - men who, as Trevor Burnard sees it, lacked any better options for making money. In the contentious 'Planters, Merchants, and Slaves', Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop and maintain the plantation system out of virulent racism or sadism, but rather out of economic logic because - to speak bluntly - it worked. These economically successful and ethically monstrous plantations required racial divisions to exist, but their successes were always measured in gold, rather than skin or blood.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.7208/chicago/9780226286242.001.0001/upso-9780226286105
URL:
http://chicago.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7208/chicago/9780226286242.001.0001/upso-9780226286105
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