| Sugar and Slavery, Family and Race: The Letters and Diary of Pierre Dessalles, Planter in Martinique, 1808-1856 Contributor(s): Dasalles, Pierre (Author), Forster, Elborg (Editor), Forster, Robert (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0801851548 ISBN-13: 9780801851544 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1996 Annotation: Dairies of nineteenth-century plantation managers are rare; diaries of French sugar planters are rarer still. All though such works as the diaries of Ella Gertrude Thomas and James Henry Hammond provide insight into the plantation societies of the antebellum South, virtually no contemporary source treats planters as extensively, or presents a white planters views on slave society in as much detail, as do the letters and diary of Pierre Dessalles. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - France - History | Latin America - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 95034519 |
| Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History & Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 6.01" W x 8.96" (1.07 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Diaries of nineteenth-century plantation managers are rare; diaries of French sugar planters are rarer still. Although such works as the diaries of Ella Gertrude Thomas and James Henry Hammond provide insight into the plantation societies of the antebellum South, virtually no contemporary source treats planter-slave relations as extensively, or presents a white planter's views on slave society in as much detail, as do the letters and diary of Pierre Dessalles. Now Elborg Forster and Robert Forster have translated and edited the most historically and socially significant portions of this unusual work. Previously available only in a four-volume French edition, these materials treat a wide range of topics, including the slave economy, management and socialization of the labor force, the role of free blacks in society, the lives led by the plantation owners, and, significantly, black-white relations before, during, and after emancipation. |