9. Daniel Rood connects modern California cotton booms to historical plantation capitalism and labor exploitation. He explains how 17th-century sugar production in Barbados pioneered industrial agriculture, mass enslavement, and racialized labor concepts.

Season 8 Episode 722  ·  Apr 10, 01:32 AM
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9. Daniel Rood connects modern California cotton booms to historical plantation capitalism and labor exploitation. He explains how 17th-century sugar production in Barbados pioneered industrial agriculture, mass enslavement, and racialized labor concepts. (9)

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10. Daniel Rood explores the history of plantations as systems designed to exploit cash crops with high margins. He discusses the unending cycle of boom and bust and the "shadow of the great house". (10)
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