This volume presents a quantitative study of Cuban slavery from the late eighteenth century until 1880, the year slavery was formally abolished on the island. The core of this study is an examination of the yearly movement of slave prices and changes in the demographic characteristics of the slave market. Incorporating over 30,000 slave transactions from three separate locations in Cuba--Havana, Santiago, and Cienfuegos--this work comprises the largest extant database on any slave market in the Americas.
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"This excellent study is a must-read for students and academics interested in slavery, colonialism, and societies in the Caribbean and Latin America." Colonial Latin American Historical Review
"...a most welcomed work. There will be no serious study of nineteenth-century Cuban and Latin American slavery for a long time to come that will not refer to this book. Almost as exciting as the data and conclusions in the book was the research team that this Cuban-American venture was able to put together....almost all Latin Americanists will want this book in their library." H-Net Book Review
"Over one hundred figures and tables that supplement the text reveal the intricacies of Cuba's traffic in slaves; the richness of the database must surely encourage like projects elsewhere in the Americas....[its] subtle and suggestive interpretations will engage future scholarship." American Historical Review
"...students of slavery in the Americas will find the data provided here on Cuba and the authors' analytical treatment of it to be a valuable contribution to our understanding of price fluctuations in slave markets over the course of a century. The appendices, graphs, charts, and tables add to to the book's significance as reference tool." Errol D. Jones, The Historian
"...a most welcomed work. There will be no serious study of nineteenth-century Cuban and Latin American slavery for a long time to come that will not refer to this book. Almost as exciting as the data and conclusions in the book was the research team that this Cuban-American venture was able to put together....almost all Latin Americanists will want this book in their library." H-Net Book Review
"Over one hundred figures and tables that supplement the text reveal the intricacies of Cuba's traffic in slaves; the richness of the database must surely encourage like projects elsewhere in the Americas....[its] subtle and suggestive interpretations will engage future scholarship." American Historical Review
"...students of slavery in the Americas will find the data provided here on Cuba and the authors' analytical treatment of it to be a valuable contribution to our understanding of price fluctuations in slave markets over the course of a century. The appendices, graphs, charts, and tables add to to the book's significance as reference tool." Errol D. Jones, The Historian
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This volume presents a quantitative study of Cuban slavery from the late eighteenth century until 1880, the year slavery was formally abolished on the island. The core of this study is an examination of the yearly movement of slave prices and changes in the demographic characteristics of the slave market. Incorporating over 30,000 slave transactions from three separate locations in Cuba--Havana, Santiago, and Cienfuegos--this work comprises the largest extant data base on any slave market in the Americas.
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This book is about the price history of the Cuban slave market during the most intense period of slave-based sugar plantation growth in Cuban history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
slave price trends, libertad venta, labor market saturation, average slave prices, higher slave prices, siempre fiel isla, sugar ingenios, abolition process, slate market, local slave markets, los negros esclavos, younger slaves, slave transactions, slaves ages, protocol records, slave imports, mitad del siglo xix, sugar sector, sugar economy, urban slavery, slave sales, slave census, total slave population, coffee economy, slaves arriving Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Year Figure, Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, New Orleans, Latin American, Moreno Fraginals, Imprenta del Gobierno, Princeton University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Civil War, Moret Law, Rio Claro, Without Consent, Archivo Nacional de Cuba, Buenos Aires, Cambridge University Press, Puerto Rico, Santiago de Cuba, Santo Domingo, Males Females, Western Hemisphere, Archivo General de Indias, Barry Higman New!
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This book is about the price history of the Cuban slave market during the most intense period of slave-based sugar plantation growth in Cuban history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
slave price trends, libertad venta, labor market saturation, average slave prices, higher slave prices, siempre fiel isla, sugar ingenios, abolition process, slate market, local slave markets, los negros esclavos, younger slaves, slave transactions, slaves ages, protocol records, slave imports, mitad del siglo xix, sugar sector, sugar economy, urban slavery, slave sales, slave census, total slave population, coffee economy, slaves arriving Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Year Figure, Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, New Orleans, Latin American, Moreno Fraginals, Imprenta del Gobierno, Princeton University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Civil War, Moret Law, Rio Claro, Without Consent, Archivo Nacional de Cuba, Buenos Aires, Cambridge University Press, Puerto Rico, Santiago de Cuba, Santo Domingo, Males Females, Western Hemisphere, Archivo General de Indias, Barry Higman New!
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- Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Slavery by Robert William Fogel on 7 pages
- Slavery in the Americas (Institute of Race Relations) by Herbert S. Klein on 4 pages
- American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips on 4 pages
- Second Abstract of British Historical Statistics (Department of Applied Economics Monographs) by B. R. Mitchell on page 55, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Atlantic Slave Trade (New Approaches to the Americas) by Herbert S. Klein on page 6, page 46, and Back Matter
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