Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

by Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Dale W Tomich, Carlos Venegas Fornias, et al.

Book Overview

Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. These landscapes--from cotton fields in the Lower Mississippi Valley to sugar plantations in western Cuba and coffee plantations in Brazil's Paraiba Valley--demonstrate how the restructuring of the capitalist world economy led to the formation of new...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469663120
• ISBN13: 9781469663128
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.8" x 9.9"