Richard Follett: 3 books
The Sugar Masters
Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820--1860
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Focusing on the master-slave relationship in Louisiana's antebellum sugarcane country, The Sugar Masters explores how a modern, capitalist mind-set among planters meshed with old-style paternalistic attitudes to create one of the South's most insidiously oppressive labor systems. As author Richard...
Plantation Kingdom
The American South and Its Global Commodities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In 1850, America’s plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew throughout a vast farming empire that stretched from Maryland to Texas. Four million enslaved African Americans toiled the fields, producing global commodities...
Slavery's Ghost
The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
President Abraham Lincoln freed millions of slaves in the South in 1863, rescuing them, as history tells us, from a brutal and inhuman existence and making the promise of freedom and equal rights. This is a moment to celebrate and honor, to be sure, but what of the darker, more troubling side of this...