Book
Sugar plantations in the formation of Brazilian society: Bahia, 1550-1835
Cambridge University Press • (52) • Published In 1985 • Pages: xxiii, 616
By: Schwartz, Stuart B..
Abstract
In this study Schwartz presents a detailed history of Bahian plantation society from 1550 to 1835 based not only on the traditional sources of information, but also on other little used or unnused plantation records (where they exist), notorial and ecclesiastical registers, and more commonly on administrative and private correspondence (p. xiii). The work is divided into four parts. Part I describes the origins of the Brazilian plantation system and the early experience with American Indians as workers and slaves. Part II provides a detailed analyis of life and work on the sugar plantations of Bahia with discussions on life and work on these plantations, the history of the sugar economy, the process of sugar making, and plantation finance. Part III is a general discussion of the organizational principles of plantation society. The final section of this book, part IV, provides a general discussion of the political and economic trends of the late colonial and early national periods as background for an examination of slaveholding in Bahian society.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1999
- Region
- South America
- Sub Region
- Eastern South America
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1998
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 1550-1835
- Coverage Place
- Bahia, Brazil, South America
- Notes
- Stuart B. Schwartz
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 581-592) and index
- LCCN
- 85006716
- LCSH
- Bahia (Brazil : State)