Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part One Migrations and Encounters
- Part Two Trade, Exchange, and Production
- 5 The Columbian Exchange
- 6 The slave trade and the African diaspora
- 7 The organization of trade in Europe and Asia, 1400–1800
- 8 Entrepreneurs, families, and companies
- 9 Silver in a global context, 1400–1800
- 10 Dutch and English trade to the East: the Indian Ocean and the Levant, to about 1700
- 11 Plantation societies
- 12 Industrious revolutions in early modern world history
- Part Three Religion and Religious Change
- Part Four Questions of Method
- Index
- References
11 - Plantation societies
from Part Two - Trade, Exchange, and Production
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part One Migrations and Encounters
- Part Two Trade, Exchange, and Production
- 5 The Columbian Exchange
- 6 The slave trade and the African diaspora
- 7 The organization of trade in Europe and Asia, 1400–1800
- 8 Entrepreneurs, families, and companies
- 9 Silver in a global context, 1400–1800
- 10 Dutch and English trade to the East: the Indian Ocean and the Levant, to about 1700
- 11 Plantation societies
- 12 Industrious revolutions in early modern world history
- Part Three Religion and Religious Change
- Part Four Questions of Method
- Index
- References
Summary
Few institutions define world history in the early modern era as completely as the plantation complex. Moreover, the plantation itself was a highly distinctive innovation, especially after its transformation as an economic institution in mid-seventeenth century Barbados and the subsequent spread of the Barbadian plantation model throughout British and French America. Brazil's plantation system, the most significant early form, retained elements of feudalism, principally the usurpation by private subjects of jurisdictional rights over workers that were usually the province of the state. Barbados was the crucible in which the mature plantation system was incubated. In the 1770s, the plantation system was at its pre-industrial peak. Its economic performance was extraordinary. Produce from plantations amounted to around 40 percent of the trade of the leading European Atlantic states. It was slavery and slave-produced goods that integrated the Atlantic system and which made it so dynamic in the eighteenth century.
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- The Cambridge World History , pp. 263 - 282Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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