04122nam 2200745 a 450 991077984180332120170821200235.01-78533-026-80-85745-934-110.1515/9780857459343(CKB)2550000001108957(EBL)1337743(OCoLC)855505465(SSID)ssj0000955053(PQKBManifestationID)11589957(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000955053(PQKBWorkID)10953865(PQKB)11382090(MiAaPQ)EBC1337743(DE-B1597)637127(DE-B1597)9780857459343(EXLCZ)99255000000110895720121010d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSlavery and antislavery in Spain's Atlantic empire[electronic resource] /edited by Josep M. Fradera and Christopher Schmidt-NowaraNew York Berghahn Books20131 online resource (340 p.)European Expansion & Global InteractionEuropean expansion and global interaction ;v. 9Description based upon print version of record.0-85745-933-3 1-299-77793-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-321) and index.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 AntislaveryChapter 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 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 plantatiEuropean Expansion & Global InteractionSlave tradeCaribbean AreaHistorySlave tradeLatin AmericaHistorySlaveryCaribbean AreaHistorySlaveryLatin AmericaHistoryAntislavery movementsCaribbean AreaHistoryAntislavery movementsLatin AmericaHistorySpainColoniesAmericaHistorySlave tradeHistory.Slave tradeHistory.SlaveryHistory.SlaveryHistory.Antislavery movementsHistory.Antislavery movementsHistory.382.44NW 8295rvkFradera Josep Maria790331Schmidt-Nowara Christopher1966-1467991MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779841803321Slavery and antislavery in Spain's Atlantic empire3678897UNINA