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The Sugar Masters : Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820--1860 /

Focusing on the master-slave relationship in Louisiana's antebellum sugarcane country, 'The Sugar Masters' explores how a modern, capitalist mind-set among planters meshed with old-style paternalistic attitudes to create one of the South's most insidiously oppressive labour syste...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Follett, Richard J., 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2007]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The sugar masters
  • "A shared of ambition"
  • "Heathen part O' de country"
  • "An intelligent eye"
  • "A very ingenious and mechanical man"
  • "Men of sense"
  • "Inchin' along."