Slavery and Antislavery in Spain's Atlantic Empire (European Expansion & Global Interaction Book 9)

African slavery was pervasive in Spain’s Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial exploitation and conflict. The international group of scholars brought together in this volume explain Spain’s role as a colonial pioneer in the Atlantic world and its latecomer status as a slave-trading, plantation-based empire. These contributors map the broad contours and transformations of slave-trafficking, the plantation, and antislavery in the Hispanic Atlantic while also delving into specific topics that include: the institutional and economic foundations of colonial slavery; the law and religion; the influences of the Haitian Revolution and British abolitionism; antislavery and proslavery movements in Spain; race and citizenship; and the business of the illegal slave trade. Introduction. Colonial Ioneer And Plantation Latecomer / Josep M. Fradera And Christopher Schmidt-nowara -- The Slave Trade In The Spanish Empire (1501-1808): The Shift From Periphery To Center / Josep M. Delgado Ribas -- Portuguese Missionaries And Early Modern Anticlavery And Proslavery Thought / Luiz Felipe De Alencastro -- The Economic Role Of Slavery In A Non-slave Society: The River Plate, 1750-1860 / Juan Carlos Garavaglia -- Slaves And The Creation Of Legal Rights In Cuba: Coartición And Papel / Alejandro De La Fuente -- Cuban Slavery And Atlantic Antislavery / Ada Ferrer -- Wilberforce Spanished: Joseph Blanco White And Spanish Antislavery, 1808-1814 / Christopher Schmidt-nowara -- Spanish Merchants And The Slave Trade: From Legality To Illegality, 1814-1870 / Martín Rodrigo Y Alharilla -- La Amistad: Ramón Ferrer In Cuba And The Transatlantic Dimensions Of Slaving And Contraband Trade / Michael Zeuske And Orlando García Martinez -- Antislavery Before Abolitionism: Networks And Motives In Early Liberal Barcelona, 1833-1844 / Albert Garcia Balañà -- Moments In A Postponed Abolition / Josep M. Fradera -- From Empires Of Slavery To Empires Of Antislavery / Seymour Drescher. Edited By Josep M. Fradera And Christopher Schmidt-nowara. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [317]-321) And Index. CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION Colonial Pioneer and Plantation Latecomer Chapter 1 – THE SLAVE TRADE IN THE SPANISH EMPIRE (1501–1808) The Shift from Periphery to Center Chapter 2 – PORTUGUESE MISSIONARIES AND EARLY MODERN ANTISLAVERY AND PROSLAVERY THOUGHT Chapter 3 – THE ECONOMIC ROLE OF SLAVERY IN A NON-SLAVE SOCIETY The River Plate, 1750–1860 Chapter 4 – Slaves and the Creation of Legal Rights in Cuba Coartación and Papel Chapter 5 – Cuban Slavery and Atlantic Antislavery Chapter 6 – WILBERFORCE SPANISHED Joseph Blanco White and Spanish Antislavery, 1808–1814 Chapter 7 – Spanish Merchants and the Slave Trade From Legality to Illegality, 1814-1870 Chapter 8 – LA AMISTAD Ramón Ferrer in Cuba and the Transatlantic Dimensions of Slaving and Contraband Trade Chapter 9 – ANTISLAVERY BEFORE ABOLITIONISM Networks and Motives in Early Liberal Barcelona, 1833–1844 Chapter 10 – MOMENTS IN A POSTPONED ABOLITION Chapter 11 – FROM EMPIRES OF SLAVERY TO EMPIRES OF ANTISLAVERY SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTORS Index