Focusing on the master-slave relationship in Louisiana\'s antebellum sugarCane country, The Sugar Masters explores how a modern, capitalist mind-set among Planters meshed with old-style paternalistic attitudes to create one of the South\'s most insidiously oppressive labor systems.
Thanks to technological and business innovations, sug.
As author Richard Follett vividly demonstrates, the agricultural paradise of Louisiana\'s thriving sugarCane fields came at an unconscionable cost to slaves.
Focusing on the master-slave relationship in Louisiana\'s antebellum sugarCane country, The Sugar Masters explores how a modern, capitalist mind-set among Planters meshed with old-style paternalistic attitudes to create one of the South\'s most insidiously oppressive labor systems
