The reinvention of Atlantic slavery : technology, labor, race, and capitalism in the greater Caribbean / Daniel B. Rood.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Atlantic inversions -- A Creole industrial revolution in the Cuban sugar-mill -- El principio sacarino: purity, equilibrium, and whiteness in the sugar-mill -- From an infrastructure of fees to an infrastructure of flows: the warehouse revolution in Havana harbor -- Wrought-iron politics: racial knowledge in the making of a greater Caribbean railroad industry -- Sweetness and debasement: flour and coffee in the Richmond-Rio circuit -- A tropics of bread: entangled technologies and the greater Caribbean origins of the US flour industry -- An international harvest: the development of the McCormick Reaper -- Futures of racial capitalism.

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The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery explores how, in an age of industry and abolition, ambitious planters in the Upper US South, Cuba, and Brazil expanded slavery by collaborating with a transnational group of chemists, engineers, and other ""plantation experts"" to assist them in adapting the technologies of the Industrial Revolution to suit ""tropical"" needs.