Slavery and antislavery in Spain's Atlantic empire / / edited by Josep M. Fradera and Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807349503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013
• ISBN: 1-78533-026-8; 0-85745-934-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (340 p.)
• Collana: European expansion and global interaction ; ; v. 9
• Classificazione: NW 8295
• Altri autori (Persone): FraderaJosep Maria; Schmidt-NowaraChristopher <1966->
• Disciplina: 306.3/6209729
• Soggetti: Slave trade - Caribbean Area - History; Slave trade - Latin America - History; Slavery - Caribbean Area - History; Slavery - Latin America - History; Antislavery movements - Caribbean Area - History; Antislavery movements - Latin America - History; Spain Colonies America History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-321) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction Colonial Pioneer and Plantation Latecomer; Chapter 1 - The Slave Trade in the Spanish Empire (1501-1808): The Shift from Periphery to Center; Chapter 2 - Portuguese Missionaries and Early Modern Antislavery and Proslavery Thought; Chapter 3 - The Economic Role of Slavery in a Non-Slave Society: The River Plate, 1750-1860; Chapter 4 - Slaves and the Creation of Legal Rights in Cuba: Coartación and Papel; Chapter 5 - Cuban Slavery and Atlantic Antislavery; Chapter 6 - Wilberforce Spanished: Joseph Blanco White and Spanish Antislavery, 1808-1814Chapter 7 - Spanish Merchants and the Slave Trade: From Legality to Illegality, 1814-1870; Chapter 8 - La Amistad: Ramón Ferrer in Cuba and the Transatlantic Dimensions of Slaving and Contraband Trade; Chapter 9 - Antislavery before Abolitionism: Networks and Motives in Early Liberal Barcelona, 1833-1844; Chapter 10 - Moments in a Postponed Abolition; Chapter 11 - From Empires of ; Slavery to Empires of Antislavery; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 plantati