Odious Commerce
Britain, Spain and the Abolition of the Cuban Slave Trade
Part of Cambridge Latin American Studies
- Author: David R. Murray
- Date Published: September 2002
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521524698
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The Atlantic slave trade brought to Cuba the African slaves who created the dramatic transformation of the island from a relative backwater of Spain's colonial empire in the mid-eighteenth century to the world's richest plantation colony one hundred years later. Britain played a vital role in this transformation. British slave traders were the chief suppliers of Cuba's slaves in the eighteenth century; in the nineteenth century Britain became the greatest threat to Cuba's prosperity when she attempted to make Spain follow her example and abolish the slave trade. Dr Murray's study, based on a thorough examination of British and Spanish records, reveals how important British influence was on the course of Cuban history.
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- Date Published: September 2002
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521524698
- length: 440 pages
- dimensions: 217 x 141 x 28 mm
- weight: 0.603kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. 'Opening' of a legal trade
2. Parliament versus Cortes
3. Legality and illegality
4. The treaty of 1817
5. Enforcement and re-enforcement: the attempt to make the slave trade prohibition effective
6. The treaty of 1835
7. An abolitionist era
8. The Turnbull affair
9. The Escalera conspiracy
10. The penal law of 1845
11. Free trade and annexationism
12. The failure of the penal law
13. A new class of slaves
14. The abolition of the Cuban slave trade
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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