Visuality and Slave Management in the Brazilian and Cuban Coffee and Sugar Plantations, c. 1840–1880

A new visual regime emerged in Brazilian and Cuban coffee and sugar plantations (c. 1840–1880), linking intensified slave management strategies to evolving economic pressures and resistance patterns. This study identifies a complex of mechanisms designed to extract greater labor from enslaved workers, responding not only to global industrial capitalism but also to shifting forms of slave dissent. The research examines how visuality—such as surveillance techniques, spatial organization, and symbolic control—became integral to these strategies, reshaping the material and social landscape of plantation life in the Americas.

De Bivar Marquese, R. (2021). Visuality and Slave Management in the Brazilian and Cuban Coffee and Sugar Plantations, c. 1840–1880. Comparativ, 30(5/6), 615–636. https://doi.org/10.26014/j.comp.2020.05-06.10