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Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean - Life and Times of a British Family in Nineteenth Century Havana (Hardcover)
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Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean - Life and Times of a British Family in Nineteenth Century Havana (Hardcover)
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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" city of Havana, social antagonisms
between Britons and North Americans, interactions with European
social circles, religious tension, and the reality of tropical
disease. Drama is added to the narrative in the author's
description of the tragic and mysterious murder of George Backhouse
in August 1855, possibly the result of a slave traders' conspiracy.
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