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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784340803321

Autore

Bergad Laird W. <1948->

Titolo

The comparative histories of slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States / / Laird W. Bergad [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007

ISBN

1-107-17207-1

1-280-90976-5

9786610909766

0-511-80397-4

0-511-28655-4

0-511-28583-3

0-511-28425-X

0-511-30172-3

0-511-28507-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 314 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

New approaches to the Americas

Disciplina

306.3/62097

Soggetti

Slavery - Brazil - History

Slavery - Cuba - History

Slavery - United States - History

Slavery - America - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- From colonization to abolition : patterns of historical development in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States -- The diversity of slavery in the Americas to 1790 -- Slaves in their own words -- Slave populations -- Economic aspects -- Making space -- Resistance and rebellions -- Abolition.

Sommario/riassunto

This 2007 book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas. Brazil and Cuba were among the first colonial societies to establish slavery in the early sixteenth century. Approximately a century later British colonial Virginia was founded, and slavery became an integral part of local culture and society. In all three nations, slavery spread to nearly every region, and in many areas it was the principal



labor system utilized by rural and urban elites. Yet long after it had been abolished elsewhere in the Americas, slavery stubbornly persisted in the three nations. It took a destructive Civil War in the United States to bring an end to racial slavery in the southern states in 1865. In 1866 slavery was officially ended in Cuba, and in 1888 Brazil finally abolished this dreadful institution, and legalized slavery in the Americas came to an end.