Title Slavery, freedom, and abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic world / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 204 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Diálogos Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.) Contents Slavery and Iberian colonization -- Portrait one: Estevanico and the Spanish borderlands -- Bewtiful empyre : challenges to Iberian dominance and the transformation of New World slavery -- Portrait two: Jacqueline Lemelle and Chica da Silva : slavery, freedom, and family -- An era of emancipation : slavery and revolution in the Americas -- Portrait three: Simón Bolívar and the problem of equality -- The resurgence and destruction of slavery in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Brazil -- Portrait four: Abolitionists of the second slavery -- Conclusion: Legacies of Latin American slavery -- Glossary Summary The last New World countries to abolish slavery were Cuba and Brazil, more than twenty years after slave emancipation in the United States. Why slavery was so resilient and how people in Latin America fought against it are the subjects of this compelling study. Beginning with the roots of African slavery in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Iberian empires, this work explores central issues, including the transatlantic slave trade, labor, Afro-Latin American cultures, racial identities in colonial slave societies, and the spread of antislavery ideas and social movements. A study of Latin America, this work, with its Atlantic-world framework, will also appeal to students of slavery and abolition in other Atlantic empires and nation-states in the early modern and modern eras Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Slavery -- Latin America -- History Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Latin America -- History Antislavery movements -- Latin America -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery. Antislavery movements Slavery Enslaved persons -- Emancipation Slaveri -- historia -- Latinamerika. Slaveri -- historia -- Västindien. Antislaverirörelser -- Latinamerika. Antislaverirörelser -- Västindien. SUBJECT Latin America -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074895 Latin America -- Biography Subject Latin America Genre/Form collective biographies. Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 0826339050 9780826339058

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