Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society
Author | : Stuart B. Schwartz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1985 |
ISBN-10 | : 0521313996 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780521313995 |
Rating | : 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Download or read book Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society written by Stuart B. Schwartz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial Brazil was a multiracial society, profoundly influenced by slavery and the plantation system. This study examines the history of the sugar economy and the peculiar development of plantation society over a three hundred year period in Bahia, a major sugar-plantation zone and an important terminus of the Atlantic slave trade.