Empire And Antislavery: Spain Cuba And Puerto Rico 1833-1874 (Pitt Latin American Series, 349)

Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher

ISBN 10: 082295690X / ISBN 13: 9780822956907

Editore: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999

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Riassunto:

In 1872, there were more than 300,000 slaves in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Though the Spanish government had passed a law for gradual abolition in 1870, slaveowners, particularly in Cuba, clung tenaciously to their slaves as unfree labor was at the core of the colonial economies. Nonetheless, people throughout the Spanish empire fought to abolish slavery, including the Antillean and Spanish liberals and republicans who founded the Spanish Abolitionist Society in 1865. This book is an extensive study of the origins of the Abolitionist Society and its role in the destruction of Cuban and Puerto Rican slavery and the reshaping of colonial politics.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara is associate professor of history at Fordham University. He is the author of Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1833-1874 and coeditor, with John Nieto-Phillips, of Interpreting Spanish Colonialism: Empires, Nations, and Legends.

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Titolo: Empire And Antislavery: Spain Cuba And ...
Casa editrice: University of Pittsburgh Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1999
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Very Good