Atlantic inversions -- A Creole industrial revolution in the Cuban sugar mill -- El principio sacarino: purity, equilibrium, and whiteness in the sugar mill -- From an infrastructure of fees to an infrastructure of flows: the warehouse revolution in Havana harbor -- Wrought-iron politics: racial knowledge in the making of a greater Caribbean railroad industry -- Sweetness and debasement: flour and coffee in the Richmond-Rio circuit -- Entangled technologies: Richmond and the transformation of American flour milling -- An international harvest: the development of the McCormick Reaper -- Futures of racial capitalism
Summary
The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery explores how, in an age of industry and abolition, ambitious planters in the Upper US South, Cuba, and Brazil expanded slavery by collaborating with a transnational group of chemists, engineers, and other ""plantation experts"" to assist them in adapting the technologies of the Industrial Revolution to suit ""tropical"" needs
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 15, 2017)
