Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 254 mm x 229 mm
A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 254 mm x 229 mm
ISBN: 978-1-4696-6311-1
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
Artists and mapmakers documented in surprising detail how the physical organization of the landscape itself made possible the increased exploitation of enslaved labor. Reading these images today, one sees how technologies combined with evolving conceptions of plantation management that reduced enslaved workers to black bodies. Planter control of enslaved people's lives and labor maximized the production of each crop in a calculated system of production. Nature, too, was affected: the massive increase in the scale of production and new systems of cultivation increased the land's output. Responding to world economic conditions, the replication of slave-based commodity production became integral to the creation of mass markets for cotton, sugar, and coffee, which remain at the center of contemporary life.
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