Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820
by
Trevor Burnard
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. In the contentious Planters, Merchants, and Slaves, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop and maintain the plantation system out of virulent...