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4f16c249c04	Dallin G. Lewis	The Plantation Aesthetic: Political Economy and Literary Form in the British Atlantic World	1904		.txt	text/plain	347	10	27	The plantation's particular combination of slave labor, intensive agriculture, and financial capital transformed Britain's imperial project and upended ideals Britons held about their nation. Beginning in the early seventeenth century with the tobacco farms of Virginia and the sugar estates of Barbados, the plantation complex quickly emerged as the primary engine of Britain's colonial economy in the Western hemisphere and transformed the social, political, and economic spheres of the West Indies and southern American colonies.	cache/4f16c249c04.txt	txt/4f16c249c04.txt