{"id":735,"date":"2014-07-28T21:08:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T20:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/?p=735"},"modified":"2014-07-28T21:08:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T20:08:50","slug":"the-fall-of-the-planter-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/2014\/07\/28\/the-fall-of-the-planter-class\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall of the Planter Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is the introduction to a special issue of the journal <\/em>Atlantic Studies<em>, about the fall of the planters. It\u00a0argues that<\/em><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>\u00a0the difficulties faced by the planter class in the British West Indies from the 1780s were an early episode in a wider drama of decline for New World plantation economies. The American historian Lowell Ragatz published the first detailed historical account of their fall. His work helped to inform the influential arguments of Eric Williams, which were later challenged by Seymour Drescher. Recent research has begun to offer fresh perspectives on the debate about the decline of the planters. This article discusses that work and\u00a0maps out new directions in this field<\/em>. <a title=\"Fall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/14788810.2012.636991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nFull text of accepted manuscript:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/373\/2014\/07\/Petley-Epr-Fall-of-the-Planter-Class.pdf\">Petley &#8211; Fall of the Planter Class<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the introduction to a special issue of the journal Atlantic Studies, about the fall of the planters. It\u00a0argues that\u00a0the difficulties faced by the planter class in the British West Indies from the 1780s were an early episode in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/2014\/07\/28\/the-fall-of-the-planter-class\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":868,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[57,65,71,92],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-caribbean","tag-empire","tag-history","tag-slavery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}