African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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362 p, Contents: Sugar production and British Caribbean dependence on external markets, 1769-1776 -- The American war and the British Caribbean economy -- British policy, Canadian preference, and the West Indian economy, 1783-1810 -- The sugar market after 1775 -- Debt, decline, and the sugar industry, 1775-1810 -- New management techniques and planter reforms -- Hired slave labour -- British Caribbean slavery and abolition -- The sugar industry and eighteenth-century revolutions -- War, trade, and planter survival, 1793-1810 -- Profitability and decline: issues and concepts, an epilogue
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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173 p, Contents: Exploring the Meaning of Freedom: Postemancipation Societies in Comparative Perspective / REBECCA J. SCOTT -- Brazilian Abolition in Comparative Perspective / SEYMOUR DRESCHER -- Beyond Masters and Slaves: Subsistence Agriculture as Survival Strategy in Brazil during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century / HEBE MARIA MATTOS DE CASTRO -- Black and White Workers: Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1928 / GEORGE REID ANDREWS -- "Mud-Hut Jerusalem": Canudos Revisited / ROBERT M. LEVINE.
Chappel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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248 p, Examines the emancipation process in the British Caribbean, particularly Jamaica, during the 1830s and in the United States, particularly South Carolina, during the 1860s. Analyzing the intellectual and ideological foundations of postslavery Anglo-America, Demetrius Eudell explores how former slaves, former slaveholders, and their societies' central governments understood and discussed slavery, emancipation, and the transition between the two.
