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Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World - Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher
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The last New World countries to abolish slavery were Cuba and Brazil, more than twenty years after slave emancipation in the United States. Why slavery was so resilient and how people in Latin America fought against it are the subjects of this compelling study. Beginning with the roots of African slavery in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Iberian empires, this work explores central issues, including the transatlantic slave trade, labor, Afro-Latin American cultures, racial identities in colonial slave societies, and ...

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Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World 2011, University of New Mexico Press

ISBN-13: 9780826339041

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