{"product_id":"sugar-and-slavery-family-and-pierre-dasalles-9780801851544","title":"Sugar and Slavery, Family and Race: The Letters and Diary of Pierre Dessalles, Planter in Martinique, 1808-1856","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiaries of nineteenth-century plantation managers are rare; diaries of French sugar planters are rarer still. Although such works as the diaries of Ella Gertrude Thomas and James Henry Hammond provide insight into the plantation societies of the antebellum South, virtually no contemporary source treats planter-slave relations as extensively, or presents a white planter's views on slave society in as much detail, as do the letters and diary of Pierre Dessalles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow Elborg Forster and Robert Forster have translated and edited the most historically and socially significant portions of this unusual work. Previously available only in a four-volume French edition, these materials treat a wide range of topics, including the slave economy, management and socialization of the labor force, the role of free blacks in society, the lives led by the plantation owners, and, significantly, black-white relations before, during, and after emancipation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pierre Dessalles, Pierre Dasalles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801851548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801851544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/24\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.01w x 0.87d","brand":"Pierre Dessalles","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947179802879,"sku":"9780801851544","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_fa2dded1-98a9-4cb3-aee4-2488eb7a56a6.jpg?v=1681517194","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sugar-and-slavery-family-and-pierre-dasalles-9780801851544","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}