In 1872, there were more than 300,000 slaves in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Though the Spanish government had passed a law for gradual abolition in 1870, slaveowners, particularly in Cuba, clung tenaciously to their slaves as unfree labor was at the core of the colonial economies. 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. 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.
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"It is a thoroughly researched study that moves beyond the "us-against-them" model that has characterizes much of the earlier scholarship, forcing scholars to recognize a more complex Spain, whose various economic and social actors clashed to produce contradictory and seemingly bizarre colonial policies."
--Colonial Latin American Historical Review
--Colonial Latin American Historical Review
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Christopher Schmidt-Nowara teaches in the Department of History, Fordham University and lives in Brooklyn, New York. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1995. His research interests include Spanish and Latin American intellectual and cultural history and the history of New Mexico, his home state.
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This review is from: Empire And Antislavery: Spain Cuba And Puerto Rico 1833-1874 (Pitt Latin American Studies) (Paperback)
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara has written an excellent book to understand the process that led to the abolition of slavery in the Spanish colonies in the Caribbean, taking into account the latest developments in Cuban, Puertorrican, and Spanish history. This is an important new viewpoint: to understand the nineteenth-century history of Cuba and Puerto Rico it's necessary to have a fine understanding of Spain's colonial policy and the socio-economic links that these two colonies established with the metropolis. I consider this book a major break through, a very important book for any person interested in the history of the Caribbean, Latin America and/or Spain.
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This review is from: Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba, & Puerto Rico, 1833-1874 (Pitt Latin American) (Hardcover)
This is an incredible book for anyone interested in the abolition of slavery.
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