Slave traffic in the Age of Abolition : Puerto Rico, West Africa, and the non-Hispanic Caribbean, 1815-1859 / Joseph C. Dorsey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dorsey, Joseph C., 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Puerto Rico--History--19th century.

Slave trade.

Slave trade--Caribbean Area--History--19th century.

Slave trade--Africa, West--History--19th century.

History.

West Africa.

Caribbean Area.

Puerto Rico.

Physical Description:

xvii, 311 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2003]

Contents:

Introduction: Approaches, Directions, and Concerns 1

Part I. Strategies and Stratagems

1. "Such an Obscure Colony" 23

2. Early Anglo-Spanish Diplomacy: Duplicity as Discourse 38

3. Friendly Fire, Enemy Fire: Policy Consolidation and Reform 59

Part II. New Routes, Old Remedies

4. Teamwork: Frenchmen, Dutchmen, and Danes 83

5. Moving Meridians and Parallels 101

6. African Rivers: Structures of Transport 121

Part III. Mare Liberum

7. South Atlantic East: Cycles of Revival and Decline 149

8. South Atlantic West: A Stasis of Flux 168

9. Theories in Practice: The Inter-Caribbean Influx of 1847 186

Epilogue: Cette Fin Qui N'en Est Pas Une 210

1.1. Slavery and the Economic Transformation of Puerto Rico, 1816-1830 223

1.2. A Landing of Captives Directly from Africa, Mayaguez, 1831 225

1.3. A Landing of Reexported African Captives from the Non-Hispanic Caribbean, Ponce, 1831 227

1.4. A Passenger Ship Encounters a Slave Ship between St. Croix and Puerto Rico, 1840 229

2.1. Tax Amnesty Plan for the Illegal Introduction of Slaves to Puerto Rico: Preamble, 1841 231

2.2. The Spanish Government Authorizes the Use of Free African Contract Labor in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1842 233

3.1. A Spanish Slave Ship Is Sighted in Dutch Curacao, 1850 235.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-299) and index.

ISBN:

0813024781

OCLC:

50670106