Slavery and Antislavery in Spain's Atlantic Empire [Hardcover]

African slavery was pervasive in Spains Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial exploitation and conflict. The international group of scholars brought together in this volume explain Spains role as a colonial pioneer in the Atlantic world and its latecomer status as a slave-trading, plantation-based empire. These contributors map the broad contours and transformations of slave-trafficking, the plantation, and antislavery in the Hispanic Atlantic while also delving into specific topics that include: the institutional and economic foundations of colonial slavery; the law and religion; the influences of the Haitian Revolution and British abolitionism; antislavery and proslavery movements in Spain; race and citizenship; and the business of the illegal slave trade.

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara was Professor of History and Prince of Asturias Chair in Spanish Culture & Civilization at Tufts University.? He was at work on a translation and edition of Joseph Blanco WhitesBosquexo del comercio en esclavos.

Introduction:Colonial Pioneer, Plantation Latecomer
Josep M. Fradera and Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

Chapter 1.The Slave Trade in the Spanish Empire (1501-1808): The Shift from Periphery to Center
Josep M. Delgado

Chapter 2.?The Portuguese Missionaries and Early Modern Antislavery
Luiz Felipe de Alencastro

Chapter 3.?The Economic Role of Slavery in a Non-Slave Society: The River Plate, 1750-1860
Juan Carlos Garavaglia

Chapter 4.?Slaves and the Creation of Legal Rights in Cuba:Coartaci?nandPapel(reprinted from Hispanic American Historical Review)
Alejandro dl3ˆ