Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery - A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth Century

"Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. These landscapes-from cotton fields in the Lower Mississippi Valley to sugar plantations in western Cuba and coffee plantations in Brazil's Paraâiba Valley-demonstrate how the restructuring of the capitalist world economy led to the formation of new zones of commodity production. By extension, these environments radically transformed slave labor and the role such labor played in the expansion of the global economy"--

About the author

Dale W. Tomich is professor emeritus of sociology at Binghamton University. Rafael de Bivar Marquese is professor of history at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. Reinaldo Funes Monzote is professor of history at the University of Havana. Carlos Venegas Fornias is a researcher at Centro de Investigaciones Juan Marinello in Havana.

Summary

Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organisation of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. These landscapes demonstrate how the restructuring of the capitalist world economy led to the formation of new zones of commodity production.

Product details

• Authors: Rafael de Bivar Marquese, Carlos Venegas Fornias, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Rafael de Bivar Marquese, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Dale W Tomich, Dale W. Tomich, Dale W. Monzote Tomich, Carlos Venegas Fornias
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781469663128
• ISBN: 978-1-4696-6312-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas