... 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...

... 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 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...

... 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...

... abolition post-emancipation rural labor plantation daily life sugar plantations ...

... sugar plantation slavery oil fuel ...

... sugar plantation slavery oil fuel ...

... slavery abolition Recôncavo sugar plantations slave flights slave resistance ...

... post-emancipation family community orality and freedom Recôncavo sugar plantations rural and urban labor migration ...

... post-emancipation trajectories family memory survival Recôncavo sugar plantations rural community rural and urban labor migration ...

... without conscience that waited in the wings. sugar plantation slavery oil fuel Trinidad’s eighteenth-century plantations provoked the most profound energy transition yet seen. The Spanish colonial governor, Josef Chacón, invented fuel. A fuel stores energy in a measurable, countable...

... Trinidad’s eighteenth-century plantations provoked the most profound energy transition yet seen. The Spanish colonial governor, Josef Chacón, invented fuel. A fuel stores energy in a measurable, countable, transportable, and salable form. Fuel is intrinsically disenchanted and deracinated...

... The second chapter, “Seascapes and Landscapes,” considers Frans Post’s coastal studies of salt mining in the Cape Verde islands and his depiction of the Brazilian sugar plantations in relation to the account books, inventories, and written records that traveled beside his pictorial record...

... after abolition. To develop this argument, the author relied on civil and ecclesiastical registers, as well as oral testimony by the elderly residents of rural communities in the Recôncavo. post-emancipation family community orality and freedom Recôncavo sugar plantations rural and urban...

... This chapter explores Haydée’s birth in 1922 and childhood on a sugar plantation in rural Cuba, what life was like for a girl and young woman in that restrictive atmosphere, and how class and gender norms affected her. It describes her place in the family, relationships with her parents and four...

... a continental empire within global capitalism. capitalism slavery politics expansion Civil War Saint Domingue was the most profitable plantation society in Americas in 1790, leading production of sugar and coffee with a population 90 percent enslaved. Amid the conflicts and ideals of the French...

... system. Revolutionary Haitian slaves ended plantation production, claimed the land, and focused on families; entrepreneurs responded by expanding sugar, coffee, cotton, and slavery in Cuba, Brazil, and the United States. Bajío insurgents took the land, focused on families, and undermined the silver...

... Saint Domingue was the most profitable plantation society in Americas in 1790, leading production of sugar and coffee with a population 90 percent enslaved. Amid the conflicts and ideals of the French revolution, slaves took arms to claim freedom, end French rule, all but end sugar production...