Sugar, Slavery, and Society

Bernard Moitt is associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848.

Introduction, by Bernard Moitt; 1. Indian Sugar Then and Now: Power to the Peasants, by B. S. Baviskar; 2. Cane and Its Uses in Grainger's The Sugar Cane, Selvon's "Cane is Bitter," Ernest Moutoussamy's Aurore, and Lucie Julia's Les Gens de Bonne-Esperence, by Sada Niang; 3. Sugar, Slavery, and Marronnage in the French Caribbean: The Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries, by Bernard Moitt; 4. Awakening, Resistance, and Empowerment: The Slave Protagonist in the Cane Literatures of the Caribbean and the Mascarenes, by Joyce Leung; 5. Social Stratification and Agency in a Sugar Plantation Society: Enslaved Africans, Free Blacks, and the White Planter Class in the Guiana Colonies and British Guiana, 1700-1850, by Bernard Moitt and Horace L. Henriques; 6. Sugar and the Politics of Slavery in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cuba, by Anton L. Allahar; 7. From Slavery to Freedom in Louisiana's Sugar Country: Changing Labor Systems and Workers' Power, 1861-1913, by Rick Halpern and Richard Follett; 8. The Caribbean Plantation: Its Contemporary Significance, by Paget Henry