The Cuban Slave Market, 1790-1880

by Laird W. Bergad, Fe Iglesias García, Maria del Carmen Barcia, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521534437
• ISBN13: 9780521534437
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"