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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Graden, Dale Torston, 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 result of an increased population and concurrent economic expansion, the United States widened its trade relationship with Cuba and Brazil, importing half of Brazil's coffee exports and 82 percent of Cuba's total exports by 1877. Disease, Resistance, and Lies examines the impact of these burgeoning markets on the Atlantic slave trade between these countries from 1808 -- when the U.S. government outlawed American involvement in the slave trade to Cuba and Brazil -- to 1867, when slave traffic to Cuba ceased.
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 pages).
ISBN:9780807155301

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