Fighting slavery in the Caribbean : the life and times of a British family in nineteenth-century Havana / Luis Martinez-Fernandez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martínez-Fernández, Luis, 1960- author.

Series:

Latin American realities.

Latin American realities Fighting slavery in the Caribbean

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Backhouse, George Canning.

British and Spanish Mixed Commission for the Suppression of the Slave Trade.

Slave trade--Cuba--History--19th century.

Slave trade.

British--Cuba--Havana--Attitudes.

British.

Visitors, Foreign--Cuba--Havana--Attitudes.

Visitors, Foreign.

Cuba--History--1810-1899.

Cuba.

Havana (Cuba)--Social conditions.

Havana (Cuba).

Havana (Cuba)--Description and travel.

Cuba--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents a social history of life in mid-19th-century Cuba as experienced by George Backhouse (and his wife, Grace), who served on the British Havana Mixed Commission for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Documented with extracts from the Backhouse's correspondence, diaries and other contemporary papers, Martinez-Fernandez paints a detailed picture of the Cuban slave trade, its role in the sugar industry, and the interrelated contradictions within Cuba's economy, society and politics. The Backhouse story provides addition al insights into important aspects of life in the ""male""

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Havana Bound; II. Settling in the Tropics; III. The Mixed Commission and Cuba's Emancipados; IV. Life in a ""Male City""; V. Leisure and Pleasure; VI. Protestants in Roman Catholic Cuba; VII. A Land Flowing with Milk and Pestilence; VIII. The Return Home; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

First published 1998 by M.E. Sharpe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-47059-1

0-7656-0248-2

1-315-70435-8

1-317-47060-5

0-585-17987-5

9781315704357

OCLC:

958109077