The Problem of Class

             While reading The Sugar Masters , I was continuously reminded of Hegel’s Master-Slave dialectic and believe that it is a conc...

Since I am missing class and need to provide more for the blog. Here are my answers to the questions that Professor Rockman presented:  ...

             Our conversation this week touched upon a lot of the ideas that have been circulating throughout this semester. One of our ma...

Afterwards- Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana’s Cane World 1820-1860 Richard Follet’s book The Sugar Masters provoked a produc...

             A lot of historical work has been done trying show how wage labor can be equated to slavery.   Follett’s book The Sugar Maste...

Richard Follet’s The Sugar Masters discusses how slave owners in Louisiana maintained both paternalistic and self-interested attitudes in...

Throughout reading Sugar Masters I couldn’t help but think back to Rockman’s Scraping By from last week as I noticed how well these two work...