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Article: Plantation Economy Model
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Plantation Economy Model
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The theory of plantation economy and society has been developed to explain the experience and evolution of societies subjected to European-controlled sugarcane production by an enslaved African labor force and later by indentured Asian laborers (mostly Indians). As the historian Philip Curtin observes,
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The plantation complex
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ultimately stretched from Rio Grande do Sul in south eastern Brazil to the Mason-Dixon line and it had outliers in the Indian Ocean islands of Reunion and Mauritius
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(Curtin 1998, p. xii).
The plantation economy model posits that plantation slavery and specialization in export of primary commodities has ...