Edelson examines the relationships between planters, slaves, and the natural world they colonized to create the Carolina Lowcountry. With a bold interdisciplinary approach, Plantation Enterprise reconstructs the environmental, economic, and cultural changes that made it one of the most prosperous and repressive regions in the Atlantic world.
Reinterprets one of America's oldest symbols - the southern slave plantation. This title examines the relationships between planters, slaves, and the natural world they colonized to create the Carolina Lowcountry.