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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953970803321

Autore

Schmidt-Nowara Christopher <1966-2015.>

Titolo

Slavery, freedom, and abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic world / / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, 2011

ISBN

9780826339058

0826339050

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Collana

Dialogos

Disciplina

306.3/62098

Soggetti

Slavery - Latin America - History

Enslaved persons - Emancipation - Latin America - History

Antislavery movements - Latin America - History

Latin America History

Latin America Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations, Maps, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: Slavery and Iberian Colonization -- Portrait One: Estevanico and the Exploration of the Spanish Borderlands -- 2: Bewtiful Empyre: Challenges to Iberian Dominance and the Transformation of New World Slavery -- Portrait Two: Jacqueline Lemelle and Chica da Silva: Slavery, Freedom, and Family -- 3: An Era of Emancipation: Slavery and Revolution in the Americas -- Portrait Three: Simón Bolívar and the Problem of Equality -- 4: The Resurgence and Destruction of Slavery in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Brazil -- Portrait Four: Abolitionists of the Second Slavery -- Conclusion: Legacies of Latin American Slavery -- Notes -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- Index -- Back Cover.

Sommario/riassunto

Why slavery was so resilient and how people in Latin America fought against it are the subjects of this compelling study.