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"Plantation system" as a book category covers works—fiction and nonfiction—that examine plantations as economic, social, and political institutions: the large-scale agricultural estates that rose under colonialism and early capitalism across the Americas, the Caribbean, parts of Africa and Asia from the 17th through 19th centuries (and their legacies). Books in this category explore the crops and technologies, labor systems (enslaved, indentured, wage), hierarchies of race and class, everyday life on plantations, resistance and rebellion, abolition and emancipation, and the long-term cultural, economic and environmental consequences of plantation economies. Subgenres include scholarly histories, archival-based studies, memoirs and oral histories, historical novels, and interdisciplinary critical works in slavery studies and postcolonial studies. Because the subject often involves violence and human exploitation, these books frequently address trauma, memory, and ethics of representation.

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