Empire And Antislavery (Paperback)
Spain Cuba And Puerto Rico 1833-1874
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780822956907
Published: 6th May 1999
Casemate UK Academic
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780822956907
Published: 6th May 1999
Casemate UK Academic
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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.
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