Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States

Name: Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States
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ISBN: 9780521694100

ISBN-10: 0521694108

ISBN-13: 9780521694100

Edition: 2007

Authors: Laird W. Bergad, Stuart Schwartz

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This book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas. Brazil and Cuba were among the first colonial societies to establish slavery in the early sixteenth century. Approximately a century later British colonial Virginia was founded, and slavery became an integral part of local culture and society. In all three nations, slavery spread to nearly every region, and in many areas it was the principal labor system utilized by rural and urban elites. Yet long after it had been abolished elsewhere in the Americas, slavery stubbornly persisted in the three nations. It took a destructive Civil War in the United States to bring an end to racial slavery in the southern states in 1865.…

Book details

List price: $33.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/25/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 342
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of Maps and Figures


Introduction



From Colonization to Abolition: Patterns of Historical Development in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States



The Diversity of Slavery in the Americas to 1790



Slaves in Their Own Words



Slave Populations



Economic Aspects



Making Space



Resistance and Rebellions



Abolition


Bibliography


Index