Part One. From wilderness to plantation -- Introduction -- Part Two. The economy of prosperity -- Plantations in the fifties and sixties -- Plantation labor -- Marketing, provisioning and transport -- Part Three. Plantation society -- The free -- Planter and slave -- Patterns of living -- Religion and festivities on the plantation -- Part Four. Decline -- The crumbling economy -- Abolition and aftermath -- Epilogue -- The legacy -- Appendix -- Glossary
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-310) and index