| 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: 0521534437 ISBN-13: 9780521534437 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $51.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2003 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Slavery - History | Latin America - General - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 380.144 |
| LCCN: 94038288 |
| Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 276 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |