...This chapter argues that as a consequence of the transformation of the plantation enterprise in the revolutionary and early national eras, South Carolinians depended on enslaved mobility for the maintenance of their economic lives. This movement brought the developmental aspirations of South...

... Norwood’s Plantation Louisiana battle of Opelousas Louisiana Petty Elijah P Thibodeaux Louisiana Walker John George Bagby Arthur Pendleton Dana Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Marmaduke John Sappington Military units Union Noel Theophilus Sterling Plantation Louisiana skirmish at Algiers Louisiana...

..., and Haiti, Mintz underscored the common ecological and historical patterns of the Spanish Antilles and situated them in the general social history of the region. Mintz masterfully sketched out the “plantation-peasant relation” as a corrective to plantation-centered approaches to Caribbean history...

...This chapter describes Sidney Mintz's Worker in the Cane as a model life history, uncovering the subtlest of dynamics within plantation society by tracing the experiences of a single individual and his family. By contrast, Mintz's Sweetness and Power gains its...

... lived through by Taso and his compatriots in Barrio Jauca after the United States assumed sovereignty of Puerto Rico in 1899. These changes involved a shift from a hacienda-based, plantation economy characterized by personal relationships between owners and their worker-clients, to a corporation-based...

...This provides an overview of the key themes of the book, explaining our focus on struggles land as a key aspect of Caribbean history. We introduce Jean Casimir’s the idea of the “counter-plantation system,” which guides our analysis. And we provide summaries of the various chapters. Higman B W...

...This chapter shows a new plantation oil palm industry emerged in Southeast Asia after 1900, turning the region into the world’s largest exporter of palm oil by 1940. While the “Deli palm,” a variety introduced to the region in 1848, proved to be a high-yielding type suitable for plantation...

...This chapter discusses the reasons why Epps was in the habit of hiring the author out on sugar plantations during the season of cane-cutting and sugar-making—mainly the author's inability in cotton-picking. Epps received a dollar a day for the author's services, with the money supplying...

... plantation. The difficulties these crises posed undermined much of the original vision with which Winthrop had started his project. Establishing the riverine plantation, Winthrop came to realize, would take decades, not days. The black lead mine, too, would take years to adequately test. To be sure, Child...

...This chapter describes the deterioration of Doddsville; the bustling, up-and-coming plantation town of the early twentieth century has deteriorated into abandoned buildings, deserted streets, and ancient machinery. Passing traffic on Highway 49 barely slows to acknowledge the town's tiny brick post...

...This chapter describes how large a footprint the Eastland plantation still leaves in Sunflower County. Now run by Senator Eastland's son, Woods, it stretches for about three miles on either side of Highway 442 west of Doddsville. The land is contiguous, so you could walk from one end...

... for an English family that moved to Carolina from Barbados, a family of plantation owners in both places. In this way, Drayton’s creation would seem to represent a classic transatlantic story for the British Atlantic world, combining as it does England, Africa, the Caribbean, and the southwestern edge of North...

...This text presents a reproduction of a slave narrative by Charles Ball. Charles Ball was born in 1871 on a tobacco plantation in Maryland. He lost his mother and siblings when they were sold to another planation. He grew up and married Judah, a slave on a neighboring plantation. They were separated...

...This conclusion focuses on the mobilization of African Americans in Memphis following the sanitation workers' strike in 1968 and Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. It examines black Memphians' understandings of freedom in relation to the “plantation mentality” and their almost 30 years...

... and ideological foundations of the plantation household profoundly changed the dynamics of Black and white lives in the South, gender dynamics across race and class, and the meaning of the home. Grimball Margaret Ann Meta Morris Middleton Harriott Springer Francis borders Civil War colonial discourse...

...The Haitian Revolution (1804) did not change the experience on the ground for most Haitians. After its conclusion, the oligarchs tried to relaunch the traditional plantation structure that focused on producing export commodities; the oligarchs also segregated themselves from the rest...

...-plantation system. Derived from Caribbean political and cultural practices, the counter-plantation encompassed consistent reliance on small-scale landholding. Casimir shows how lakou, small plots of land often inhabited by generations of the same family, were and continue to be sites...

... overturns assumptions that the ceremony was universal among the enslaved, as many testimonials reveal it was largely associated with “field hands,” while those enslaved in the plantation house claimed to receive elaborate weddings that included Christian ministers. The chapter dismantles several myths...

... to a model society, Republicans supported a northern agricultural ideal in opposition to southern plantation agriculture, which destroyed the land’s productivity, required constant western expansion, and produced an elite landed gentry hostile to the Union. The book shows how agrarian republicanism shaped...

...This chapter explains the development of Georgia's state prison farm, exploring how black female convicts helped transform the public industrial plantation into a “self-sustaining” entity. These women had assumed the burden of fieldwork, had implemented skilled trades, and had assisted male inmates...