Economic Contexts of Slavery

Economic Contexts of Slavery

Required:
 Richard Dunn, Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the West Indies.
 Philip Morgan, “Work and Culture: The Task System and the World of Lowcountry Blacks,” William and Mary Quarterly (1977). J-stor
 Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone, Part II “The Plantation Generations.”
Recommended:
 Stuart Schwartz, Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society (1985)
 Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (1944).
 William Darity, “Mercantilism, Slavery, and the Industrial Revolution,” BB
 Roger Batie, “Why Sugar? Economic Cycles and the Changing Staples on the English and French Antilles, 1624-54,” Journal of Caribbean Studies (1976). J-stor
 Franklin Knight, “Slavery and Lagging Capitalism in the Spanish and Portuguese American Empires” in Shepherd and Beckles, Slavery in the Caribbean.
 Ira Berlin and Philip D. Morgan, eds., Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas
 Verene Shepherd, ed. Slavery without Sugar: Diversity in Caribbean Economy and Society Since the 17th Century

To Think About ~ In what ways did sugar plantations entail an agro-industrial form of production? To what degree, does this system represent the emerging economic relations of capitalism? How did the labor regime of sugar production impact enslaved workers' daily life?