ISBN:
0857459341
,
1299777937
,
9780857459343
,
9781299777934
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (195 pages)
Series Statement:
European expansion & global interaction v. 9
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Slavery and antislavery in Spain's Atlantic empire
DDC:
306.3/6209729
Keywords:
Antislavery movements History
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Antislavery movements History
;
Slavery History
;
Slavery History
;
Slave trade History
;
Slave trade History
;
Antislavery movements
;
Slave trade
;
Slavery
;
Spanish colonies
;
Sklaverei
;
Abolitionismus
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Slavery
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History
;
Spain Colonies
;
History
;
Caribbean Area
;
Latin America
;
America
;
Atlantischer Raum
;
Karibik
;
Lateinamerika
;
Spanien
Abstract:
African slavery was pervasive in Spain's Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial exploitation and conflict. The international group of scholars brought together in this volume explain Spain's role as a colonial pioneer in the Atlantic world and its latecomer status as a slave-trading, plantation-based empire. These contributors map the broad contours and transformations of slave-trafficking, the planta
Abstract:
Introduction:Colonial pioneer and plantation latecomer /Josep M. Fradera and Christopher Schmidt-Nowara --The slave trade in the Spanish Empire (1501-1808) : the shift from periphery to center /Josep M. Delgado Ribas --Portuguese missionaries and early modern antislavery and proslavery thought /Luiz Felipe de Alencastro --The economic role of slavery in a non-slave society : the River Plate, 1750-1860 /Juan Carlos Garavaglia --Slaves and the creation of legal rights in Cuba : Coartición and Papel /Alejandro de la Fuente --Cuban slavery and Atlantic antislavery /Ada Ferrer --Wilberforce Spanished : Joseph Blanco White and Spanish antislavery, 1808-1814 /Christopher Schmidt-Nowara --Spanish merchants and the slave trade : from legality to illegality, 1814-1870 /Martín Rodrigo y Alharilla --La Amistad : Ramón Ferrer in Cuba and the transatlantic dimensions of slaving and contraband trade /Michael Zeuske and Orlando García Martínez --Antislavery before abolitionism : networks and motives in early liberal Barcelona, 1833-1844 /Albert Garcia Balañà --Moments in a postponed abolition /Josep M. Fradera --From empires of slavery to empires of antislavery /Seymour Drescher.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-321) and index
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