The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica

TitleThe Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsBurnard, Trevor, and John Garrigus
Number of Pages350
PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
CityPhilidelphia
Abstract

Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantation regimes were, to adopt a metaphor of the era, complex "machines," finely tuned over time to become more efficient at exploiting their enslaved workers and serving their empires. The Plantation Machine traces a critical half-century in the development of the social, economic, and political frameworks that made these societies possible. Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus find deep and unexpected similarities in these two prize colonies of empires that fought each other throughout the period. The core of the book addresses the Seven Years' War and its aftermath. 

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