Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society : Bahia, 1550–1835 (Paperback)

List of figures, maps, and tables; Preface; Abbreviations and special terms; Weights and measures; Part I. Formations, 1500?1600: 1. The sugar plantation: from the Old World to the New; 2. A wasted generation: commercial agriculture and Indian laborers; 3. First slavery: from Indian to African; Part II. The Bahian Engenhos and their World: 4. The Reconcavo; 5. Safra: the ways of sugar making; 6. Workers in the cane, workers at the mill; 7. The Bahian sugar trade to 1750; 8. A noble business: profits and costs; Part III. Sugar Society: 9. A colonial slave society; 10. The planters: masters of men and cane; 11. The cane farmers; 12. Wage workers in a slave economy; 13. The Bahian slave population; 14. The slave family and the limitations of slavery; Part IV. Reorientation and Persistence, 1750?1835: 15. Resurgence; 16. The structure of Bahian slaveholding; 17. Important occasions: the war to end Bahian slavery; Appendixes; Notes; Glossary; Sources and selected bibliography; Sources of figures; Index.