Sugar and Slavery, Family and Race The Letters and Diary of Pierre Dessalles, Planter in Martinique, 1808-1856

Dairies of nineteenth-century plantation managers are rare; diaries of French sugar planters are rarer still. All though such works as the diaries of Ella Gertrude Thomas and James Henry Hammond provide insight into the plantation societies of the antebellum South, virtually no contemporary source treats planters as extensively, or presents a white planters views on slave society in as much detail, as do the letters and diary of Pierre Dessalles.Forster, Elborg is the author of 'Sugar and Slavery, Family and Race The Letters and Diary of Pierre Dessalles, Planter in Martinique, 1808-1856', published 1996 under ISBN 9780801851544 and ISBN 0801851548.