Description: Traces the historical development of slave labor and plantation agriculture in nineteenth-century Martinique.
Brief description: Dale W. Tomich is Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the author of Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition: Martinique and the World-Economy, 1830-1848 and the editor of The Politics of the Second Slavery, both also published by SUNY Press.
Review Quotes:
"...a valuable contribution to the recent focus on contextualizing slavery by emphasizing its defining relationship with the 'wider world-market.'" - H-Net Reviews (H-LatAm)