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Informationen zum Autor S. Max Edelson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Klappentext Reinterprets one of America's oldest symbols - the southern slave plantation. This title examines the relationships between planters! slaves! and the natural world they colonized to create the Carolina Lowcountry. Zusammenfassung Edelson examines the relationships between planters! slaves! and the natural world they colonized to create the Carolina Lowcountry. With a bold interdisciplinary approach! Plantation Enterprise reconstructs the environmental! economic! and cultural changes that made it one of the most prosperous and repressive regions in the Atlantic world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments A Note on the Text Introduction 1. Laying Claim to the Land 2. Rice Culture Origins 3. Transforming the Plantation Landscape 4. City! Hinterland! and Frontier 5. Marketplace of Identity 6. Henry Laurens's Empire Conclusion: Into the American South Abbreviations Appendix: Statistical Tables Notes Index Illustrations The South Carolina Lowcountry-Frontispiece Figure 2.1. Inland swamp rice field Figure 3.1. Tidal swamp rice field Figure 3.2. A Lowcountry rice plantation Figure 4.1. An indigo plantation during the "making season" Figure 5.1. George Roupell! Peter Manigault and His Friends! c. 1750s Figure 6.1. Food exchanges on Henry Laurens's plantation enterprise! 1766-1773 Figure 6.2. John Singleton Copley! Henry Laurens! 1782 Map 4.1. Zones of settlement in the Lowcountry Map 4.2. Plantation settlement along the Cooper and Santee Rivers! c. 1785 Map 6.1. Henry Laurens's plantations! 1756-1792 Map 6.2. Rattray Green: Henry Laurens's Ansonborough compound! Charlestown! c. 1780
