Slavery and Antislavery in Spain's Atlantic Empire (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Fradera, Josep M.; Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 plantation, and antislavery in the Hispanic Atlantic while also delving into specific topics that include: the institutional and economic foundations of colonial slavery; the law and religion; the influences of the Haitian Revolution and British abolitionism; antislavery and proslavery movements in Spain; race and citizenship; and the business of the illegal slave trade.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857459343
• Artikelnr.: 39607161

Autorenporträt

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara was Professor of History and Prince of Asturias Chair in Spanish Culture & Civilization at Tufts University.  He was at work on a translation and edition of Joseph Blanco White's Bosquexo del comercio en esclavos.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Colonial Pioneer, Plantation Latecomer
Josep M. Fradera and Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
Chapter 1. The Slave Trade in the Spanish Empire (1501-1808): The Shift
from Periphery to Center
Josep M. Delgado
Chapter 2. The Portuguese Missionaries and Early Modern Antislavery
Luiz Felipe de Alencastro
Chapter 3. The Economic Role of Slavery in a Non-Slave Society: The River
Plate, 1750-1860
Juan Carlos Garavaglia
Chapter 4. Slaves and the Creation of Legal Rights in Cuba: Coartación and
Papel (reprinted from Hispanic American Historical Review)
Alejandro de la Fuente
Chapter 5. Cuban Slavery and Atlantic Antislavery (reprinted from Review: A
Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center)
Ada Ferrer
Chapter 6. Wilberforce Spanished: Joseph Blanco White and Spanish
Antislavery, 1808-1814
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
Chapter 7. Spanish Merchants and the Slave Trade: From Legality to
Illegality, 1814-1870
Martín Rodrigo
Chapter 8. The Amistad: Ramón Ferrer, Cuba, and the Transatlantic
Dimensions of Slaving and Contraband Trade
Michael Zeuske
Chapter 9. Antislavery before Abolitionism: Networks and Motives in Early
Liberal Barcelona, 1833-1844
Albert Garcia Balañà
Chapter 10. Moments in a Postponed Abolition
Josep M. Fradera
Chapter 11. From Empires of Slaves to Empires of Antislavery
Seymour Drescher