Slavery and antislavery in Spain's Atlantic empire

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Label

Slavery and antislavery in Spain's Atlantic empire

Statement of responsibility

edited by Josep M. Fradera and Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

Creator

• Fradera, Josep Maria

Contributor

• Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher, 1966-

Editor

• Fradera, Josep Maria
• Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher, 1966-

Subject

• Antislavery movements -- Latin America -- History
• Slave trade -- Caribbean Area -- History
• Slave trade -- Latin America -- History
• Slavery -- Caribbean Area -- History
• Slavery -- Latin America -- History
• Spain -- Colonies -- America -- History
• Antislavery movements -- Caribbean Area -- History

Language

eng

Summary

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--

Member of

• European expansion and global interaction, 9

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Provided by Publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

306.36209729

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

European expansion & global interaction

Series volume

v. 9