The Cuban Slave Market, 1790-1880

ISBN-13: 9780521480598 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 276 str.

Laird W. Bergad; Maria del Carmen Barcia; Alan Knight

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"...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

Spis treści

1. Introduction: prices and the historiography of slavery; 2. Sources and methods of data collection; 3. The development of African slavery and Cuban economic history; 4. The price structure of the Cuban slave market, 1790–1880; 5. Regional variations in the Cuban slave market: Havana, Santiago, and Cienfuegos; 6. Coartación and letters of freedom; 7. Conclusions and comparative perspectives.