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Slavery, freedom, and abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic world / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara.
Van Pelt Library HT1052.5 .S36 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher, 1966-2015.
- Series:
- Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
- Diálogos
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Latin America--History.
- Slavery.
- Antislavery movements.
- History.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--British colonies.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--French colonies.
- Latin America.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Latin America--History.
- Enslaved persons.
- Antislavery movements--Latin America--History.
- Latin America--History.
- Latin America--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 204 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Even as political and economic liberalism, which viewed the enslavement of Africans and their descendents as incompatible with the liberal project, grew in Latin America and the centers of imperialism, the institutions of slavery persisted almost to the end of the 19th century, particularly in Cuba and Brazil. Schmidt-Nowara (Spanish culture and civilization, Tufts U.) examines the reasons for this persistence and how it was eventually overcome examining local factors together with broader dimensions and developments of the Atlantic World. The chronological narrative follows the institution of slavery from its introduction under Iberian colonization to Brazil's eventual abolition of slavery in 1888. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Slavery and Iberian colonization
- Portrait one: Estevanico and the Spanish borderlands
- 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
- An era of emancipation : slavery and revolution in the Americas
- Portrait three: Simón Bolívar and the problem of equality
- 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
- Glossary.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780826339041
- 0826339042
- 9780826339058
- 0826339050
- OCLC:
- 707022988
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