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- Title
Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World.
- Authors
Rothman, Adam
- Abstract
They focus on three regions where new forms of plantation slavery took off in the nineteenth century: the Natchez District of Mississippi, heart of the cotton kingdom; western Cuba's booming sugar frontier; and the coffee-growing Paraíba Valley of Brazil. One of the book's key visual records of the cotton plantation in the southern United States is Alfred B. Waud's woodcut "Scenes on a Cotton Plantation", published in I Harper's Weekly i in 1867.
- Subjects
RECONSTRUCTING the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (Book); SLAVE trade; PLANTATIONS; VISUAL culture; CADASTRAL maps; SLAVERY; SUGAR plantations; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Business History Review, 2023, Vol 97, Issue 2, p442
- ISSN
0007-6805
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0007680523000533