Odious Commerce: Britain, Spain and the Abolition of the Cuban Slave Trade / Edition 1

by David R. Murray

Overview

The Atlantic slave trade brought to Cuba the African slaves who created the dramatic transformation of the island from a relative backwater of Spain's colonial empire in the mid-eighteenth century to the world's richest plantation colony one hundred years later. Britain played a vital role in this transformation. British slave traders were the chief suppliers of Cuba's slaves in the eighteenth century; in the nineteenth century Britain became the greatest threat to Cuba's prosperity when she attempted to make Spain follow her example and abolish the slave trade. Dr Murray's study, based on a thorough examination of British and Spanish records, reveals how important British influence was on the course of Cuban history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521524698
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/12/2002
Series:	Cambridge Latin American Studies , #37
Edition description:	First Paperback Edition
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	5.55(w) x 8.54(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. 'Opening' of a legal trade; 2. Parliament versus Cortes; 3. Legality and illegality; 4. The treaty of 1817; 5. Enforcement and re-enforcement: the attempt to make the slave trade prohibition effective; 6. The treaty of 1835; 7. An abolitionist era; 8. The Turnbull affair; 9. The Escalera conspiracy; 10. The penal law of 1845; 11. Free trade and annexationism; 12. The failure of the penal law; 13. A new class of slaves; 14. The abolition of the Cuban slave trade; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.