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Empire and Antislavery - Spain, Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1833-74 (Paperback)
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Empire and Antislavery - Spain, Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1833-74 (Paperback)
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
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In 1872, there were more than 300,000 slaves in Cuba and Puerto
Rico. Though the Spanish government has passed a law for gradual
abolition in 1870, slaveowners, particularly in Cuba, clung
tenaciously to their slaves as unfree labour was at the core of the
colonial economies. Moreover, the Spanish bourgeoisie was deeply
implicated in colonial slavery as Spain was the last European power
to abolish the slave trade and bonded labour in the Americas.
Nonetheless, people throughout the Spanish empire fought to abolish
slavery, including the Antillean and Spanish liberals and
republicans who founded the Spanish Abolitionist Society in 1865.
The Society met massive conservative resistance in Spain and the
Antilles, yet ultimately forced major changes in the imperial
order. This book is an extensive study of the origins of the
Abolitionist Society and its role in the destruction of Cuban and
Puerto Rican slavery and the reshaping of colonial politics. The
author builds his narrative around three pivotal moments. The first
is the decade of the 1830s when Spanish revolutionaries
consolidated a new imperial order that reconciled liberal
institutions in the metropolis with slavery and nonrepresentative
rule in the Antilles, provoking important criticisms of slavery,
racial conflict and Spanish rule from members of colonial society.
The second focal point is the Liberal Union (1854-1868), a period
that witnessed dramatic transformations in both the Spanish and the
imperial public spheres, setting the stage for antislavery
mobilization and new transatlantic political alliances. Finally,
""Empire and Antislavery"" analyzes the Abolitionist Society's
challenge to colonial slavery made in the aftermath of the Spanish
and Cuban revolutions of 1868. In response to the colonial
insurgency and slave rebellion, the abolitionists used revolution
as a tool for destroying slavery and building a new colonial pact,
a strategy that reached its high point during Spain's First
Republic in 1873, the year Puerto Rican slavery was abolished.
Based on research in Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the United
States, ""Empire and Antislavery"" reconstructs how abolitionism
arose as a critique of the particular structures of capitalism and
colonialism in Spain and the Antilles. More generally, it tells a
story central to the understanding of slavery, race and empire in
the Atlantic world.
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