Publication

1985 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], England

Language

English

Word Count

154,000 words, Guess

Page Count

616 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • LibraryThing97885

Classifications

  • DDC306/.0981/42
  • LCCHD9114.B7 B347 1985

Description

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.

Subjects

Topics

SlaveryHistorySugar tradePlantationsRace relationsSlavery, brazilSocial conditions

Series Statement

  • Cambridge Latin American studies ;

Other Editions

  • Sugar plantations in the formation of Brazilian society: Bahia, 1550-1835Cambridge University Press1985-01-01

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