SLAVE SOCIETY IN CUBA DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. FRANKLIN W. KNIGHT. MADISON (U. A.): UNIV. OF WISCONSIN PR. 1970. XXI, 228 S

Perhaps a society cannot endure forever half-slave and half-free, but it certainly can endure a long time in that condition. In Cuba, slavery survived for more than forty years after its abolition in the other Caribbean plantation societies. It survived, further, into an age when technological change made slave labor both inefficient and redundant. Here, Franklin W. Knight examines the conditions that maintained slavery in Cuba in the nineteenth century, and perceptively analyzes the sociological effect of the institution on the island's politics, culture, and economy. Frontmatter Acknowledgments (page xi) Note on Archival Sources (page xii) Introduction (page xiii) 1. The Transformation of Cuban Agriculture, 1763-1838 (page 3) 2. The Sugar Revolution of the Nineteenth Century (page 25) 3. The Cuban Slave Trade, 1838-1865 (page 47) 4. Slavery in a Plantation Society (page 59) 5. Structure of a Slave Society (page 85) 6. The Legal Framework of Cuban Slavery (page 121) 7. Political Milestones along the Road to Abolition, 1835-1868 (page 137) 8. The Ten Years War and the Abolition of Slavery (page 154) 9. Cuban Slavery and Race Relations (page 179) Appendix: Cuban Slave Ships Captured off the Island of Cuba, 1824-1866 (page 197) Glossary (page 201) Bibliography (page 204) Index (page 221) This excellent monograph explores the role of the black man in 19th-century Cuba and adds one more blow to the campaign against the Tannenbaum thesis of 'humane' Spanish-American slavery.