Slavery was in many ways the fundamental institution in colonial Cuba, whose economy was based on the export of sugar from the slave-worked plantations. This volume presents a quantitative study of Cuban slavery from the late eighteenth century until 1880, the year slavery was formally abolished on the island. The core of this study is an examination of the yearly movement of slave prices and changes in the demographic characteristics of the slave market. Based on data from the notarial protocol records of the Archivo Nacional de Cuba, this book establishes precise price trends for slaves by age, sex, nationality, and occupation, and considers a number of other variables including the prices of coartados (slaves who had begun the process of buying their freedom) and the patterns of emancipation. Incorporating over 30,000 slave transactions from three separate locations in Cuba - Havana, Santiago, and Cienfuegos - this work comprises the largest extant database on any slave market in the Americas.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521534437
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96777939
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Cuban Slave Market, 1790-1880
Author
Fe Iglesias Garcia, Maria Del Carmen Barcia, Laird w. Bergad
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History, Business
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
276 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
413g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Laird w. Bergad, Fe Iglesias Garcia, Maria Del Carmen Barcia