Judy Bieber
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
370
1997
The emergence of a widespread ?plantation complex? in which slave labour produced crops such as sugar on large estates funded by European capital was a phenomenon of the New World. This book shows how the institution of slavery was transformed by the demand for labour in the Americas to fill the gap between conquerors and vanquished Indians and to work in mines workshops ranches and above all on the new plantations that were established to exploit the empty lands. The essays use quantitative methodology to draw conclusions about slave existence and demography and examine the profitability and varying degrees of harshness of slave systems in different regions. They also consider the questions of manumission and slave resistance.
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
370
1997
The emergence of a widespread ?plantation complex? in which slave labour produced crops such as sugar on large estates funded by European capital was a phenomenon of the New World. This book shows how the institution of slavery was transformed by the demand for labour in the Americas to fill the gap between conquerors and vanquished Indians and to work in mines workshops ranches and above all on the new plantations that were established to exploit the empty lands. The essays use quantitative methodology to draw conclusions about slave existence and demography and examine the profitability and varying degrees of harshness of slave systems in different regions. They also consider the questions of manumission and slave resistance.