...Sugar and Slavery in the Atlantic World, 1580–1694 ...

...Sugar, Slavery, and Colonialism ...

... This chapter studies the enslaved population of the Recôncavo’s sugar plantations in the last two decades of slavery in Bahia, Brazil (1870–1888) The goal is to understand the slaves’ social and ethnic composition, occupation, work lives, relationships with their owners, and strategies...

... This chapter analyzes the day-to-day tensions between masters and slaves in the last decade of slavery (1880s) through the examination of the murder of the priest who administered a sugar plantation belonging to the Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, otherwise known as Carmelites...

... Freed people and ex-masters had different ideas about the relationships that would be developed on sugar plantations after the abolition of slavery. These different ideas produced tension and conflict around the definition of the parameters of the day-to-day social relations in the Recôncavo...

... survival Recôncavo sugar plantations rural community rural and urban labor migration ...

... This chapter examines the difficulty that large-scale mainland sugar capital faced in keeping their factories operating at full capacity on entering the prefecture in 1910. The problem was that central Okinawa’s sugar producers chose to manufacture their own lower-grade sugar through small-scale...