B J Barickman A Bahian Counterpoint Book sku-180438477

A Bahian Counterpoint by B J Barickman is a hardcover listed under Latin American History Books as sku-180438477. It examines sugar, tobacco, cassava and slavery in Bahia's Recôncavo region from 1780 to 1860. The book brings local food production and marketing into its study of slavery and export agriculture, comparing labor, landholding and farming practices across the region's main crops.

It describes how large planters and small farmers adapted to crop requirements and to overseas and local markets. Its comparison of sugar and tobacco farming shows that plantation agriculture was not the only form of slave-based export production in the Recôncavo. The study challenges established accounts of slavery, export agriculture and the development of Brazil's internal economy.