Sugar and Slavery, Family and Race : The Letters and Diary of Pierre Dessalles, Planter in Martinique, 1808-1856 Paperback / softback
by Pierre Dasalles
Edited by Elborg Forster, Robert Forster
Part of the Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture series
Paperback / softback
Description
Diaries of nineteenth-century plantation managers are rare; diaries of French sugar planters are rarer still.
Although such works as the diaries of Ella Gertrude Thomas and James Henry Hammond provide insight into the plantation societies of the antebellum South, virtually no contemporary source treats planter-slave relations as extensively, or presents a white planter's views on slave society in as much detail, as do the letters and diary of Pierre Dessalles. Now Elborg Forster and Robert Forster have translated and edited the most historically and socially significant portions of this unusual work.
Previously available only in a four-volume French edition, these materials treat a wide range of topics, including the slave economy, management and socialization of the labor force, the role of free blacks in society, the lives led by the plantation owners, and, significantly, black-white relations before, during, and after emancipation.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages, 7 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date:19/06/1996
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- ISBN:9780801851544
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages, 7 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date:19/06/1996
- Category:
- ISBN:9780801851544
