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The reinvention of Atlantic slavery : technology, labor, race, and capitalism in the greater Caribbean /

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The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery explores how, in an age of industry and abolition, ambitious planters in the Upper US South, Cuba, and Brazil expanded slavery by collaborating with a transnational group of chemists, engineers, and other ""plantation experts"" to assist them i...

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Main Author: Rood, Daniel (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Slavery > Economic aspects > Caribbean Area > History.
Slavery > Economic aspects > United States > History.
Plantations > Economic aspects > Caribbean Area > History.
Plantations > Economic aspects > United States > History.
Technology > Economic aspects > Caribbean Area > History.
Technology > Economic aspects > United States > History.
Slavery > Caribbean Area > History > 19th century.
Slavery > United States > History > 19th century.
Plantations > Aspect économique > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
Plantations > Aspect économique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Technologie > Aspect économique > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
Technologie > Aspect économique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Esclavage > Aspect économique > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
Esclavage > Aspect économique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Esclavage > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Plantations > Economic aspects
Slavery
Slavery > Economic aspects
Technology > Economic aspects
Caribbean Area
United States
1800-1899
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Atlantic inversions
  • A Creole industrial revolution in the Cuban sugar mill
  • El principio sacarino: purity, equilibrium, and whiteness in the sugar mill
  • From an infrastructure of fees to an infrastructure of flows: the warehouse revolution in Havana harbor
  • Wrought-iron politics: racial knowledge in the making of a greater Caribbean railroad industry
  • Sweetness and debasement: flour and coffee in the Richmond-Rio circuit
  • Entangled technologies: Richmond and the transformation of American flour milling
  • An international harvest: the development of the McCormick Reaper
  • Futures of racial capitalism.