Disease, Resistance, and Lies : The Demise of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Brazil and Cuba /

In the early nineteenth century the major economic players of the Atlantic trade lanes -- the United States, Brazil, and Cuba -- witnessed explosive commercial growth. Commodities like cotton, coffee, and sugar contributed to the fantastic wealth of an elite few and the enslavement of many. As a res...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Graden, Dale Torston, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Public Policy > history.
Hygiene > history.
History, 19th Century.
Enslaved Persons > history.
Disease Outbreaks > history.
Commerce > history.
Enslavement > history.
Slaves > Health and hygiene.
Slave trade.
Slave insurrections.
Epidemics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Epidemics > History > 19th century.
Slave insurrections > Cuba > History > 19th century.
Slave insurrections > Brazil > History > 19th century.
Slave trade > Cuba > History > 19th century.
Slave trade > Brazil > History > 19th century.
United States.
Cuba.
Brazil.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • U.S. involvement in the transatlantic slave trade to Cuba and Brazil
  • Infections in Cuba
  • Epidemics and the end of the transatlantic slave trade to Brazil in 1850
  • Slave resistance and debates over the slave trade to Cuba, 1790s-1840s
  • Slave resistance and the suppression of the slave trade to Brazil in 1850
  • Interpreters, translators, and the spoken word
  • Demise.

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