The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica by Trevor Burnard, John Garrigus

The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica

Trevor Burnard, John Garrigus

360 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantation regimes were, to adopt a metaphor of the era, complex "machines," finely tuned over time by p...

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