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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 Follett
Sugar 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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  • Published

Journal

American Nineteenth Century History

ISSN

1466-4658

Publisher

American Nineteenth Century History

Issue

3

Volume

1

Page range

1-27

ISBN

1466-4658

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  • American Studies Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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