Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society Bahia, 1550-1835

Stuart B. Schwartz, University Stuart B Schwartz — 1985

Colonial Brazil was a multiracial society, profoundly influenced by slavery and the plantation system. This study examines the history of the sugar economy and the peculiar development of plantation society over a three hundred year period in Bahia, a major sugar-plantation zone and an important terminus of the Atlantic slave trade.