Slavery in the circuit of sugar : Martinique and the world economy, 1830-1848

by Dale W. Tomich

Ebook, 2016

Original publication date

1990

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]

ISBN

9781438459189

Notes

CONTENTS
Foreword - Richard E. Lee

Introduction to the First Edition: Sugar, Slavery, and Capitalism
Introduction to the Second Edition: The Capitalist World-Economy as a Small Island
1. Sugar and Slavery in an Age of Global Transformation, 1791–1848
2. The Contradictions of Protectionism: Colonial Policy and the French Sugar Market, 1804–1848
3. The Local Face of World Process
4. Sugar and Slavery: Forces and Relations of Production
5. The Habitation Sucrière: Cell Unit of Colonial Production
6. Obstacles to Innovation
7. A Calculated and Calculating System: The Dialectic of Slave Labor
8. The Other Face of Slave Labor: Provision Grounds and Internal Marketing
Conclusion: The Global in the Local: World-Economy, Sugar, and the Crisis of Plantation Slavery in Martinique
Appendix 1 Estimated Volume of the Slave Trade to Martinique, 1814–1831
Appendix 2 Slave Prices by Age and Occupation, 1825–1839

Notes
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Index

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