Description
In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was once a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory of one plantation owned by the Ferron de la Ferronnayses, a circle of relatives of Breton nobles, draws on remarkable archival finds to turn that in spite of the wealth such plantations produced, they operated in a context of social, political, and environmental fragility that left them weak and crisis prone.
Specializing in correspondence between the Ferronnayses and their plantation managers, Cul de Sac proposes that the Caribbean plantation system, with its reliance on factory-like production processes and highly integrated markets, was once a particularly brand new expression of eighteenth-century capitalism. But it surely rested on a foundation of economic and political traditionalism that stymied growth and adaptation. The result was once a system heading toward collapse as planters, facing a series of larger crises within the French empire, vainly attempted to rein within the inherent violence and instability of the slave society that they had built. In recovering the lost world of the French Antillean plantation, Cul de Sac in the end reveals how the capitalism of the plantation complex persisted not as a dynamic source of progress, but from the inertia of a degenerate system headed down an economic and ideological dead end.
Specializing in correspondence between the Ferronnayses and their plantation managers, Cul de Sac proposes that the Caribbean plantation system, with its reliance on factory-like production processes and highly integrated markets, was once a particularly brand new expression of eighteenth-century capitalism. But it surely rested on a foundation of economic and political traditionalism that stymied growth and adaptation. The result was once a system heading toward collapse as planters, facing a series of larger crises within the French empire, vainly attempted to rein within the inherent violence and instability of the slave society that they had built. In recovering the lost world of the French Antillean plantation, Cul de Sac in the end reveals how the capitalism of the plantation complex persisted not as a dynamic source of progress, but from the inertia of a degenerate system headed down an economic and ideological dead end.
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