| The Cuban Slave Market, 1790-1880 Contributor(s): Bergad, Laird W. (Author), Iglesias García, Fe (Author), Barcia, María del Carmen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521480590 ISBN-13: 9780521480598 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $118.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1995 Annotation: Slavery was in many ways the fundamental institution in colonial Cuba. 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 changes in slave prices and 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 profile of slaves able to obtain freedom. Incorporating over 30,000 slave transactions from three separate locations in Cuba - Havana, Santiago, and Cienfuegos - this work comprises the largest extant data base of its type on any slave market in Latin America and the Caribbean. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Slavery - History | Latin America - General - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 380.144 |
| LCCN: 94038288 |
| Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 6.34" W x 9.28" (1.21 lbs) 276 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. 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. |