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    Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820

    By Trevor Burnard

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    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 racism or sadism, but rather out of economic logic because—to speak bluntly—it worked. These economically successful and ethically monstrous plantations required racial divisions to exist, but their successes were measured in gold, rather than skin or blood. Sure to be controversial, this book is a major intervention in the scholarship on slavery, economic development, and political power in early British America, mounting a powerful and original argument that boldly challenges historical orthodoxy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateOct 27, 2015
    ISBN9780226286242
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    Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820
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    Trevor Burnard

    Trevor Burnard is professor of American history and head of the Department of American Studies at the University of Sussex, England. He is author of Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776.

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