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The Cuban Slave Market, 1790–1880

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  • Date Published: January 2003
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521534437

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  • This volume presents a quantitative study of Cuban slavery from the late eighteenth century until 1880, the year slavery was formally abolished on the island. The core of this study is an examination of the yearly movement of slave prices and changes in the demographic characteristics of the slave market. Incorporating over 30,000 slave transactions from three separate locations in Cuba--Havana, Santiago, and Cienfuegos--this work comprises the largest extant database on any slave market in the Americas.

    • First scientific study of demographic and economic characteristics of the Cuban slave market based on archival sources over an extended time
    • Utilizes sophisticated quantitative methodologies with a minimum of technical jargon
    • A standard reference for scholars studying 19th-century Cuban social, political, and cultural history
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    Reviews & endorsements

    "This excellent study is a must-read for students and academics interested in slavery, colonialism, and societies in the Caribbean and Latin America." Colonial Latin American Historical Review

    "...a most welcomed work. There will be no serious study of nineteenth-century Cuban and Latin American slavery for a long time to come that will not refer to this book. Almost as exciting as the data and conclusions in the book was the research team that this Cuban-American venture was able to put together....almost all Latin Americanists will want this book in their library." H-Net Book Review

    "Over one hundred figures and tables that supplement the text reveal the intricacies of Cuba's traffic in slaves; the richness of the database must surely encourage like projects elsewhere in the Americas....[its] subtle and suggestive interpretations will engage future scholarship." American Historical Review

    "...students of slavery in the Americas will find the data provided here on Cuba and the authors' analytical treatment of it to be a valuable contribution to our understanding of price fluctuations in slave markets over the course of a century. The appendices, graphs, charts, and tables add to to the book's significance as reference tool." Errol D. Jones, The Historian

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    Product details

    • Date Published: January 2003
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521534437
    • length: 276 pages
    • dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
    • weight: 0.413kg
    • contains: 63 b/w illus. 37 tables
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    1. Introduction: prices and the historiography of slavery
    2. Sources and methods of data collection
    3. The development of African slavery and Cuban economic history
    4. The price structure of the Cuban slave market, 1790–1880
    5. Regional variations in the Cuban slave market: Havana, Santiago, and Cienfuegos
    6. Coartación and letters of freedom
    7. Conclusions and comparative perspectives.

  • Authors

    Laird W. Bergad, City University of New York

    Fe Iglesias García

    María del Carmen Barcia

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