Chapter
List of figures, maps, and tables
Abbreviations and special terms
Part I. Formations, 1500-1600
1. The sugar plantation: from the Old World to the New
Expansion: slavery and commerce
Atlantic-island precedents
2. A wasted generation: commercial agriculture and Indian laborers
Responses to the European economy
Slaves, peasants, or proletarians
The disaster of contact: Portuguese and Indian readjustments
3. First slavery: from Indian to African
Indian labor: terminology, acquisition, and types
The ethnic composition of the Indian slave force
Acculturation and interaction
Part II. The Bahian engenhos and their world
5. Safra: the ways of sugar making
The search for improvements
6. Workers in the cane, workers at the mill
Work in field and factory
Labor force: size and organization
Work requirements and the slave regime
7. The Bahian sugar trade to 1750
From growth to decline to resurgence
Hard times: enemies and competitors
8. A noble business: profits and costs
The "mystery" of Engenho Sergipe
9. A colonial slave society
Social ideology and Brazilian reality
10. The planters: masters of men and cane
Social composition and relations
12. Wage workers in a slave economy
Categories of salaried employees
Workers and wages at Engenho Sergipe
13. The Bahian slave population
Life and death at Fazenda Saubara
14. The slave family and the limitations of slavery
Family structure: the example of Engenho Santana
The greater family: ritual kinship
Part IV. Reorientation and persistence, 1750-1835
Bahia and the Pombaline reforms
Economic growth and social stress
16. The structure of Bahian slaveholding
Bahian slaveholding in the Brazilian context
Slaveholding and Bahian slavery
17. Important occasions: the war to end Bahian slavery
Endemic resistance: the mocambos
The revolts: contexts and consciousness
The war against Bahian slavery
A. The problem of Engenho Sergipe do Conde
B. The estimated price of white sugar at the mill in Bahia
C. The value of Bahian sugar exports, 1698-1766
Chapter 1. The sugar plantation: from the Old World to the New
Chapter 2. A wasted generation: commercial agriculture and Indian laborers
Chapter 3. First slavery: from Indian to African
Chapter 5. Safra: the ways of sugar making
Chapter 6. Workers in the cane, workers at the mill
Chapter 7. The Bahian sugar trade to 1750
Chapter 8. A noble business: profits and costs
Chapter 9. A colonial slave so
Chapter 10. The planters: masters of men and cane
Chapter 11. The cane farmers
Chapter 12. Wage workers in a slave economy
Chapter 13. The Bahian slave population
Chapter 14. The slave family and the limitations of slavery
Chapter 16. The structure of Bahian slaveholding
Chapter 17. Important occasions: the war to end Bahian slav
Appendix A. The problem of Engenho Sergipe do
Sources and selected bibliography
The search for improvements
6. Workers in the cane, workers at the mill
Work in field and factory
Labor force: size and organization
Work requirements and the slave regime
7. The Bahian sugar trade to 1750
From growth to decline to resurgence
Hard times: enemies and competitors
8. A noble business: profits and costs
The "mystery" of Engenho Sergipe
9. A colonial slave society
Social ideology and Brazilian reality
10. The planters: masters of men and cane
Social composition and relations
12. Wage workers in a slave economy
Categories of salaried employees
Workers and wages at Engenho Sergipe
13. The Bahian slave population
Life and death at Fazenda Saubara
14. The slave family and the limitations of slavery
Family structure: the example of Engenho Santana
The greater family: ritual kinship
Part IV. Reorientation and persistence, 1750-1835
Bahia and the Pombaline reforms
Economic growth and social stress
16. The structure of Bahian slaveholding
Bahian slaveholding in the Brazilian context
Slaveholding and Bahian slavery
17. Important occasions: the war to end Bahian slavery
Endemic resistance: the mocambos
The revolts: contexts and consciousness
The war against Bahian slavery
A. The problem of Engenho Sergipe do Conde
B. The estimated price of white sugar at the mill in Bahia
C. The value of Bahian sugar exports, 1698-1766
Chapter 1. The sugar plantation: from the Old World to the New
Chapter 2. A wasted generation: commercial agriculture and Indian laborers
Chapter 3. First slavery: from Indian to African
Chapter 5. Safra: the ways of sugar making
Chapter 6. Workers in the cane, workers at the mill
Chapter 7. The Bahian sugar trade to 1750
Chapter 8. A noble business: profits and costs
Chapter 9. A colonial slave so
Chapter 10. The planters: masters of men and cane
Chapter 11. The cane farmers
Chapter 12. Wage workers in a slave economy
Chapter 13. The Bahian slave population
Chapter 14. The slave family and the limitations of slavery
Chapter 16. The structure of Bahian slaveholding
Chapter 17. Important occasions: the war to end Bahian slav
Appendix A. The problem of Engenho Sergipe do
Sources and selected bibliography
Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society
：Bahia, 1550–1835
( Cambridge Latin American Studies )
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