Richard Follett
Biographic Data
| ID | 136436 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Follett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Follett |
| SIGNATURE | FOLLETT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Plantation Kingdom
Plantation Kingdom
Plantation Kingdom traces the rise and fall of America’s plantation economy. Written by four renowned historians, the book demonstrates how an international capitalist system rose out of slave labor, indentured servitude, and the mass production of agricultural commodities for world markets. Vast estates continued to exist after emancipation, but tenancy and sharecropping replaced slavery’s work gangs across most of the plantation world. Poverty …
The Demography of Slavery
Caribbean Slavery, British Anti-Slavery, and the Cultural Politics of Venereal Disease
Venereal disease was commonplace among free and enslaved populations in colonial Caribbean societies. This article considers how contemporaries (both in the empire and metropole) viewed venereal infection and how they associated it with gendered notions of empire and masculinity. It further explores how creole medical practices evolved as planters, slaves, and tropical physicians treated sexually transmitted infections. Yet what began as a famili…
Fatal Self-Deception
Journal Article Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South Get access Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South. By Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xviii, 232 pp. Cloth, $90.00. Paper, $26.99.) Richard Follett Richard Follett University of SussexBrighton, England [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
The Demography of Slavery
The wholesale enslavement by Europeans of West and West Central African peoples throughout the Americas was neither predetermined, nor was it the outcome of a series of “unthinking decisions”.1 Rather, beginning with the Iberian powers in the early fifteenth century, at different times in different places, it stemmed not so much from a backwards glance at the assumed benefits of the various slave systems of the ancient and medieval worlds of West…
Documenting the Louisiana Sugar Economy, 1845–1917
Documenting Louisiana Sugar (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/louisianasugar), an on-line database project rolled out in July 2008 and now freely available, provides historians and social scientists with an innovative tool for examining one sector of the plantation economy and agrarian society in the American South. Utilizing exceptionally detailed annual crop returns and additional census records, the project makes available two fully searchable database…
Lives of living death’
This paper examines the seasonality of childbirth among slave women and addresses the relationship between seasonal workloads, nutrition, and pregnancy on large sugar plantations in nineteenth-century Louisiana. Unlike the rest of the American South, where the slave population grew, bondspeople in southern Louisiana experienced natural population decrease. This derived in part from imbalanced sex ratios, but as this article shows, conceptions pea…
Give to the labor of America, the market of America
En la época anterior a la Guerra Civil estadounidense, la industria azucarera de Louisiana pasó de fabricar cantidades insignificantes de edulcorante a elaborar 264.000 Tn., debido al aumento del consumo interno y de su capacidad productiva. Sin embargo, fue incapaz de contrarrestar las crecientes exportaciones caribeñas. Este estudio arguye que los hacendados esclavistas de dicha región operaban en un mercado muy dinámico, en el que se mostraron…
Heat, Sex, and Sugar
This article examines the dynamics of slave fecundity in the antebellum South and analyzes the relationship between the planters 'labor requirements and pregnancy on large sugar estates in nineteenth-century Louisiana. In contrast to the cotton states, where the slave population grew, bondspeople in Louisiana's sugar world experienced natural population decrease. This derived in part from imbalanced sex ratios, but as this article explores, it al…
Slavery and plantation capitalism in Louisiana's sugar country
Sugar planters in the antebellum South managed their estates progressively, efficiently, and with a political economy that reflected the emerging capitalist values of nineteenth‐century America. By fusing economic progress and slave labor, sugar planters revolutionized the means of production and transformed the institution of slavery. Slaveholders and bondspeople redefined the parameters of paternalism and recast the master‐slave relationship al…
Heat, Sex, and Sugar
This article examines the dynamics of slave fecundity in the antebellum South and analyzes the relationship between the planters 'labor requirements and pregnancy on large sugar estates in nineteenth-century Louisiana. In contrast to the cotton states, where the slave population grew, bondspeople in Louisiana's sugar world experienced natural population decrease. This derived in part from imbalanced sex ratios, but as this article explores, it al…
Caribbean Slavery, British Anti-Slavery, and the Cultural Politics of Venereal Disease
Venereal disease was commonplace among free and enslaved populations in colonial Caribbean societies. This article considers how contemporaries (both in the empire and metropole) viewed venereal infection and how they associated it with gendered notions of empire and masculinity. It further explores how creole medical practices evolved as planters, slaves, and tropical physicians treated sexually transmitted infections. Yet what began as a famili…
Lives of living death’
This paper examines the seasonality of childbirth among slave women and addresses the relationship between seasonal workloads, nutrition, and pregnancy on large sugar plantations in nineteenth-century Louisiana. Unlike the rest of the American South, where the slave population grew, bondspeople in southern Louisiana experienced natural population decrease. This derived in part from imbalanced sex ratios, but as this article shows, conceptions pea…
Fatal Self-Deception
Journal Article Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South Get access Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South. By Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xviii, 232 pp. Cloth, $90.00. Paper, $26.99.) Richard Follett Richard Follett University of SussexBrighton, England [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
Give to the labor of America, the market of America
En la época anterior a la Guerra Civil estadounidense, la industria azucarera de Louisiana pasó de fabricar cantidades insignificantes de edulcorante a elaborar 264.000 Tn., debido al aumento del consumo interno y de su capacidad productiva. Sin embargo, fue incapaz de contrarrestar las crecientes exportaciones caribeñas. Este estudio arguye que los hacendados esclavistas de dicha región operaban en un mercado muy dinámico, en el que se mostraron…
Slavery and plantation capitalism in Louisiana's sugar country
Sugar planters in the antebellum South managed their estates progressively, efficiently, and with a political economy that reflected the emerging capitalist values of nineteenth‐century America. By fusing economic progress and slave labor, sugar planters revolutionized the means of production and transformed the institution of slavery. Slaveholders and bondspeople redefined the parameters of paternalism and recast the master‐slave relationship al…
Heat, Sex, and Sugar
This article examines the dynamics of slave fecundity in the antebellum South and analyzes the relationship between the planters 'labor requirements and pregnancy on large sugar estates in nineteenth-century Louisiana. In contrast to the cotton states, where the slave population grew, bondspeople in Louisiana's sugar world experienced natural population decrease. This derived in part from imbalanced sex ratios, but as this article explores, it al…
Lives of living death’
This paper examines the seasonality of childbirth among slave women and addresses the relationship between seasonal workloads, nutrition, and pregnancy on large sugar plantations in nineteenth-century Louisiana. Unlike the rest of the American South, where the slave population grew, bondspeople in southern Louisiana experienced natural population decrease. This derived in part from imbalanced sex ratios, but as this article shows, conceptions pea…
Give to the labor of America, the market of America
En la época anterior a la Guerra Civil estadounidense, la industria azucarera de Louisiana pasó de fabricar cantidades insignificantes de edulcorante a elaborar 264.000 Tn., debido al aumento del consumo interno y de su capacidad productiva. Sin embargo, fue incapaz de contrarrestar las crecientes exportaciones caribeñas. Este estudio arguye que los hacendados esclavistas de dicha región operaban en un mercado muy dinámico, en el que se mostraron…
Documenting the Louisiana Sugar Economy, 1845–1917
Documenting Louisiana Sugar (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/louisianasugar), an on-line database project rolled out in July 2008 and now freely available, provides historians and social scientists with an innovative tool for examining one sector of the plantation economy and agrarian society in the American South. Utilizing exceptionally detailed annual crop returns and additional census records, the project makes available two fully searchable database…
The Demography of Slavery
The wholesale enslavement by Europeans of West and West Central African peoples throughout the Americas was neither predetermined, nor was it the outcome of a series of “unthinking decisions”.1 Rather, beginning with the Iberian powers in the early fifteenth century, at different times in different places, it stemmed not so much from a backwards glance at the assumed benefits of the various slave systems of the ancient and medieval worlds of West…
Caribbean Slavery, British Anti-Slavery, and the Cultural Politics of Venereal Disease
Venereal disease was commonplace among free and enslaved populations in colonial Caribbean societies. This article considers how contemporaries (both in the empire and metropole) viewed venereal infection and how they associated it with gendered notions of empire and masculinity. It further explores how creole medical practices evolved as planters, slaves, and tropical physicians treated sexually transmitted infections. Yet what began as a famili…
Fatal Self-Deception
Journal Article Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South Get access Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South. By Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xviii, 232 pp. Cloth, $90.00. Paper, $26.99.) Richard Follett Richard Follett University of SussexBrighton, England [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
The Demography of Slavery
Plantation Kingdom
Plantation Kingdom
Plantation Kingdom traces the rise and fall of America’s plantation economy. Written by four renowned historians, the book demonstrates how an international capitalist system rose out of slave labor, indentured servitude, and the mass production of agricultural commodities for world markets. Vast estates continued to exist after emancipation, but tenancy and sharecropping replaced slavery’s work gangs across most of the plantation world. Poverty …
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