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Slavery and Plantation Capitalism in Louisiana's Sugar Country
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posted on 2023-06-07, 21:51 authored by Richard FollettSugar planters in the antebellum South managed their estates progressively, efficiently, and with a political economy that reflected the emerging capitalist values of nineteenth-century America. By fusing economic progress and slave labor, sugar planters revolutionized the means of production and transformed the institution of slavery. Slaveholders and bondspeople redefined the parameters of paternalism and recast the master-slave relationship along a novel path. Louisiana slaves accommodated the machine, holding no torch for Luddism while concurrently shaping the agro-industrial revolution to achieve modest economic independence and relative autonomy within the plantation quarters.
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American Nineteenth Century HistoryISSN
1466-4658Publisher
American Nineteenth Century HistoryExternal DOI
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3Volume
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1-27ISBN
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