Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society Bahia, 1550-1835 (Cambridge Latin American Studies Series): Bahia, 1550-1835 Book

List of figures, maps, and tables; Preface; Abbreviations and special terms; Weights and measures;

Part I. Formations, 1500-1600:

1. The sugar plantation: from the Old World to the New;
2. A wasted generation: commercial agriculture and Indian laborers;
3. First slavery: from Indian to African;

Part II. The Bahian Engenhos and their World:
4. The Recôncavo;
5. Safra: the ways of sugar making;
6. Workers in the cane, workers at the mill;
7. The Bahian sugar trade to 1750;
8. A noble business: profits and costs;

Part III. Sugar Society:
9. A colonial slave society;
10. The planters: masters of men and cane;
11. The cane farmers;
12. Wage workers in a slave economy;
13. The Bahian slave population;
14. The slave family and the limitations of slavery;

Part IV. Reorientation and Persistence, 1750-1835:
15. Resurgence;
16. The structure of Bahian slaveholding;
17. Important occasions: the war to end Bahian slavery; Appendixes; Notes; Glossary; Sources and selected bibliography; Sources of figures; Index.