Also known as: Atlantic capitalism
Last updated: April 23, 2026
Burnard and Garrigus are especially useful because they locate plantation societies inside a wider economic structure without dissolving them into abstraction. Capital came from Europe, labor was violently procured from Africa, and high-value commodities were manufactured in the Caribbean for Atlantic markets. The Greater Antilles were therefore not marginal beneficiaries of capitalism. They were among the places where its coercive forms were most clearly concentrated.
Embodied the Atlantic-elite response to Haitian emancipation: expanding slave-based capitalism rather than reforming it.
His career as an intermediary attorney-manager illustrates how Atlantic capitalism operated through chains of agents, attorneys, and absentee proprietors.
The conspiracy emerged from the Atlantic world of slavery and its contradictions
Bordeaux merchants profited extensively from the Saint-Domingue plantation economy.
Atlantic Slave Trade
Commerce En Droiture
Atlantic Capitalism
Atlantic Capitalism
Sugar Plantation
Triangular Trade
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