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Slavery and antislavery in Spain's Atlantic empire /

African slavery was pervasive in Spain's 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 confl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fradera, Josep Maria (Editor ), Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher, 1966-2015 (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Colección:European expansion and global interaction ; v. 9.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:African slavery was pervasive in Spain's 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 Spain's 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 planta.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (195 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-321) and index.
ISBN:9780857459343
0857459341
1299777937
9781299777934