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Slavery, freedom, and abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic world /

The last New World countries to abolish slavery were Cuba and Brazil, more than twenty years after slave emancipation in the United States. Why slavery was so resilient and how people in Latin America fought against it are the subjects of this compelling study. Beginning with the roots of African sl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher, 1966-2015
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2011.
Colección:Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The last New World countries to abolish slavery were Cuba and Brazil, more than twenty years after slave emancipation in the United States. Why slavery was so resilient and how people in Latin America fought against it are the subjects of this compelling study. Beginning with the roots of African slavery in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Iberian empires, this work explores central issues, including the transatlantic slave trade, labor, Afro-Latin American cultures, racial identities in colonial slave societies, and the spread of antislavery ideas and social movements. A study of Latin America, this work, with its Atlantic-world framework, will also appeal to students of slavery and abolition in other Atlantic empires and nation-states in the early modern and modern eras.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 204 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0826339050
9780826339058