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Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century by Tera W. Hunter (review)

Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century by Tera W. Hunter (review) the artisanal practices of the eighteenth-century tobacco plantation or sugar ingenio. The productivity and profit of the slave plantation meant that govern - ments were keen to furnish it with the infrastructure it needed. Rood has a fascinating chapter on Havana’s bustling warehouses and diverse popu- lation. Well-organized gangs of free men of color dominated the docks in the period before 1844, but they were then brutally suppressed, as were enslaved construction workers who went on strike to demand wages. The idea that the slave plantation economies were technologically stag- nant still lingers, but Rood shows it to be quite mistaken. Huge increases in output and transportation were achieved by harnessing steam power. In the cotton and cane fields the organization of slaves in gangs intensified the labor process. Railroads and steamboats assisted the inland spread of the plantation complex. Planters were supplied by their mercantile factors with improved seeds and the latest equipment. Rood conjures up the true commodity hell of the plantation world, showing that bondage could be, and was, abetted by technical advance and competitive pressures. Robin Blackburn robin blackburn is the author of The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of the Civil War Era University of North Carolina Press

Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century by Tera W. Hunter (review)

Parry, Tyler D.
The Journal of the Civil War Era , Volume 9 (2) – Jun 1, 2019
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the artisanal practices of the eighteenth-century tobacco plantation or sugar ingenio. The productivity and profit of the slave plantation meant that govern - ments were keen to furnish it with the infrastructure it needed. Rood has a fascinating chapter on Havana’s bustling warehouses and diverse popu- lation. Well-organized gangs of free men of color dominated the docks in the period before 1844, but they were then brutally suppressed, as were enslaved construction workers who went on strike to demand wages. The idea that the slave plantation economies were technologically stag- nant still lingers, but Rood shows it to be quite mistaken. Huge increases in output and transportation were achieved by harnessing steam power. In the cotton and cane fields the organization of slaves in gangs intensified the labor process. Railroads and steamboats assisted the inland spread of the plantation complex. Planters were supplied by their mercantile factors with improved seeds and the latest equipment. Rood conjures up the true commodity hell of the plantation world, showing that bondage could be, and was, abetted by technical advance and competitive pressures. Robin Blackburn robin blackburn is the author of The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern,

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The Journal of the Civil War Era – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Jun 1, 2019

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