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The Merchant of Havana : The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive /

"As Cuba industrialized in the nineteenth century, two ideological forces appeared: anti-Semitism and abolitionism. As the antislavery movement became organized in Cuba, the argument grew that Jews participated in the African slave trade and in New World slavery, and that this participation gav...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Silverstein, Stephen, 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"As Cuba industrialized in the nineteenth century, two ideological forces appeared: anti-Semitism and abolitionism. As the antislavery movement became organized in Cuba, the argument grew that Jews participated in the African slave trade and in New World slavery, and that this participation gave Jews extraordinary influence in the new Cuban economy and culture. Because of the decidedly small Jewish population on the island in this era, this form of anti-Semitism sprang almost exclusively from mythological beliefs"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 pages).
ISBN:9780826521118