Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-277) and index.
The sugar masters -- "A shared of ambition" -- "Heathen part O' de country" -- "An intelligent eye" -- "A very ingenious and mechanical man" -- "Men of sense" -- "Inchin' along."
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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 labour systems.
Sugar masters.
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African Americans-- Louisiana-- Social conditions-- 19th century.