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Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously
successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial
colonies. These plantation regimes were, to adopt a metaphor of the
era, complex "machines," finely tuned over time by planters,
merchants, and officials to become more efficient at exploiting
their enslaved workers and serving their empires. Using a wide
range of archival evidence, The Plantation Machine traces a
critical half-century in the development of the social, economic,
and political frameworks that made these societies possible. Trevor
Burnard and John Garrigus find deep and unexpected similarities in
these two prize colonies of empires that fought each other
throughout the period. Jamaica and Saint-Domingue experienced, at
nearly the same moment, a bitter feud between planters and
governors, a violent conflict between masters and enslaved workers,
a fateful tightening of racial laws, a steady expansion of the
slave trade, and metropolitan criticism of planters' cruelty. The
core of The Plantation Machine addresses the Seven Years' War and
its aftermath. The events of that period, notably a slave poisoning
scare in Saint-Domingue and a near-simultaneous slave revolt in
Jamaica, cemented white dominance in both colonies. Burnard and
Garrigus argue that local political concerns, not emerging racial
ideologies, explain the rise of distinctive forms of racism in
these two societies. The American Revolution provided another
imperial crisis for the beneficiaries of the plantation machine,
but by the 1780s whites in each place were prospering as never
before-and blacks were suffering in new and disturbing ways. The
result was that Jamaica and Saint-Domingue became vitally important
parts of the late eighteenth-century American empires of Britain
and France.
Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously
successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial
colonies. These plantation regimes were, to adopt a metaphor of the
era, complex "machines," finely tuned over time by planters,
merchants, and officials to become more efficient at exploiting
their enslaved workers and serving their empires. Using a wide
range of archival evidence, The Plantation Machine traces a
critical half-century in the development of the social, economic,
and political frameworks that made these societies possible. Trevor
Burnard and John Garrigus find deep and unexpected similarities in
these two prize colonies of empires that fought each other
throughout the period. Jamaica and Saint-Domingue experienced, at
nearly the same moment, a bitter feud between planters and
governors, a violent conflict between masters and enslaved workers,
a fateful tightening of racial laws, a steady expansion of the
slave trade, and metropolitan criticism of planters' cruelty. The
core of The Plantation Machine addresses the Seven Years' War and
its aftermath. The events of that period, notably a slave poisoning
scare in Saint-Domingue and a near-simultaneous slave revolt in
Jamaica, cemented white dominance in both colonies. Burnard and
Garrigus argue that local political concerns, not emerging racial
ideologies, explain the rise of distinctive forms of racism in
these two societies. The American Revolution provided another
imperial crisis for the beneficiaries of the plantation machine,
but by the 1780s whites in each place were prospering as never
before-and blacks were suffering in new and disturbing ways. The
result was that Jamaica and Saint-Domingue became vitally important
parts of the late eighteenth-century American empires of Britain
and France.
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