Cheney, Paul — Cul de Sac: Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue (2017) Source Information
Author: Paul Cheney
Full Title: Cul de Sac: Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Year: 2017
Type: Secondary Source — Plantation Microhistory, Atlantic Capitalism, Family Property, and Colonial Management
Location in Vault: research/secondary-sources/
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Review pass: Completed (2026-03-27) — plantation-microhistory pass focused on the cul de sac plain, jean baptiste corbier, irrigation conflict, and the reform formula of humanity and interest
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Graph review in this pass: Created cul de sac plain, jean baptiste corbier, and humanity and interest; strengthened sugar plantation, moc historiography, moc society culture, and moc sources Overview Cheney gives the vault one of its best plantation-scale microhistories. Instead of summarizing Saint-Domingue from far above, he follows one absentee noble family, one plantation zone, and one manager's correspondence to show how capitalism, aristocratic patrimony, slavery, irrigation, war, marriage, and indemnity actually fit together. That makes the book especially valuable for Saint-Domingue worldbuilding.