Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth: The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake, by Paul Musselwhite

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor Burnard
Keyword(s):  
Plantation Society

Drinking in Hawaiian Plantation Society

1964 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 689-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin M. Lemert
Keyword(s):  
Plantation Society

Money, Trade, and Power: The Evolution of Colonial South Carolina's Plantation Society. Edited by Jack P. Greene, Rosemary Brana-Shute, and Randy J. Sparks. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 400. $49.95.

2003 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 273-274
Author(s):  
Peter A. Coclanis
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Antebellum South ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
University Of South Carolina ◽  
Antebellum Period ◽  
To Come ◽  
Plantation Society

The “problem” of South Carolina has long fascinated historians of the antebellum period, particularly political historians. Why were Palmetto State politicians always so fiery, confrontational, and eager to come to blows? Many fine scholars have attempted to answer such questions over the years, and, as a result, we know more about the politics of South Carolina than we do about the politics of any other state in the antebellum South.

ASSISTED EMIGRATION AND THE MORAL DILEMMAS OF THE MID-VICTORIAN IMPERIAL STATE

2016 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 1027-1049 ◽  
Author(s):  
PHILIP HARLING
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
New South ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Irish Famine ◽  
Slave Emancipation ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Ethical Controversy ◽  
Plantation Society ◽  
Imperial State

ABSTRACTThis article examines three voyages of the late 1840s to advance the argument that emigration – often treated by its historians as ‘spontaneous’ – actually involved the laissez-faire mid-Victorian imperial state in significant projects of social engineering. The tale of the Virginius exemplifies that state's commitment to taking advantage of the Famine to convert the Irish countryside into an export economy of large-scale graziers. The tale of the Earl Grey exemplifies its commitment to transforming New South Wales into a conspicuously moral colony of free settlers. The tale of the Arabian exemplifies its commitment to saving plantation society in the British Caribbean from the twin threats posed by slave emancipation and free trade in sugar. These voyages also show how the British imperial state's involvement in immigration frequently immersed it in ethical controversy. Its strictly limited response to the Irish Famine contributed to mass death. Its modest effort to create better lives in Australia for a few thousand Irish orphans led to charges that it was dumping immoral paupers on its most promising colonies. Its eagerness to bolster sugar production in the West Indies put ‘liberated’ slaves in danger.

In Search of the White Idyll

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-267
Author(s):  
Aaron J. Silverman
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
Revolutionary Era ◽  
Permanent Residence ◽  
National Body ◽  
Plantation Society

The Haitian Revolutionary Era prompted Virginian elites to reconsider their revolutionary commitment to manumission. In 1782 Virginia became the first and only North American plantation society to liberalize manumission, but rescinded the bill in 1806, and forbid permanent residence to newly freed ex-slaves. As a result, white Virginians turned to colonization as the solution to the problem of liberalism in a slavery society. In rejecting the possibility of a free and multiracial society, Virginia elites resurrected social colonialism, and relegated slavery to the new national body politic.

Crime in Trinidad: Conflict and Control in a Plantation Society, 1838-1900

1988 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 532
Author(s):  
William A. Green ◽  
David Vincent Trotman
Keyword(s):  
Plantation Society ◽  
And Control

Escaping slavery in a Caribbean plantation society : marronage in Barbados, 1650s-1830s

1997 ◽  
Vol 71 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 183-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome S. Handler
Keyword(s):  
White Population ◽  
Slave Society ◽  
Plantation Society

Disputes the idea that Barbados was too small for slaves to run away. Author describes how slaves in Barbados escaped the plantations despite the constraints of a relatively numerous white population, an organized militia, repressive laws, and deforestation. Concludes that slave flight was an enduring element of Barbadian slave society from the 17th c. to emancipation.

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