Slavery in the Americas : a comparative study of Virginia and Cuba / by Herbert S. Klein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klein, Herbert S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Cuba.

Slavery.

Cuba.

Slavery--Virginia.

Virginia.

Physical Description:

xi, 270 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Elephant Paperbacks, 1989.

Summary:

In this first detailed comparison of the workings and effects of slavery in two New World colonies, Herbert Klein dramatically confirms formerly untested theories about institutional differences in Latin American and North American slavery. He explains in large measure why blacks have achieved greater social integration and occupational mobility in Latin America than they have in the North. Similar in their racial proportions and in their plantation agriculture, Cuba and Virginia make excellent comparative models. Mr. Klein's analysis considers legal structures, religion, economic development, and the position of freedmen. His conclusions provide essential background for understanding some of the complexities of contemporary race relations.

Contents:

Part I. Conquest, Colonization, and the Establishment of Imperial Control 1

The Cuban Experience 2

The Virginia Experience 22

Part II. The Legal Structure 37

Virginia and the Establishment of Chattel Slavery 40

Cuba and the Transplantation of a Historic Institution 57

Part III. Anglicanism, Catholicism, and the Negro Slave 86

The Church and Its Negro Communicants in Colonial Cuba 87

The Negro and the Church of England in Virginia 105

Part IV. Slavery and the Economy 127

Cuba and the Diversified Economy 128

Virginia and the Plantation System 164

Part V. The Freedman as an Indicator of Assimilation 193

An Integrated Community: The Free Colored in Cuba 194

A World Apart: The Free Colored of Virginia 227.

Notes:

Reprint of 1967 ed. (Chicago : University of Chicago)

Bibliographical footnotes.

ISBN:

0929587049

OCLC:

19563504