Part I. Formations, 1500-1600
The sugar plantation: from the Old World to the New
A wasted generation: commercial agriculture and Indian laborers
First slavery: from Indian to African
Part II. The Bahian Engenhos and their World
Safra: the ways of sugar making
Workers in the cane, workers at the mill
The Bahian sugar trade to 1750
A noble business: profits and costs
The planters: masters of men and cane
Wage workers in a slave economy
The Bahian slave population
The slave family and the limitations of slavery
Part IV. Reorientation and Persistence, 1750-1835
The structure of Bahian slaveholding
Important occasions: the war to end Bahian slavery.
