David Murray, Murray David R.

Odious Commerce

Britain, Spain and the Abolition of the Cuban Slave Trade
Herausgeber: Knight, Alan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study shows how British influence affected the course of Cuban history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780521524698
• ISBN-10: 0521524695
• Artikelnr.: 21349599

Autorenporträt

DPhil Oxon, Hon. Doctor the Open University of Hong Kong, Emeritus Professor of the Open University UK. An academic historian with special interests and expertise in administrative, constitutional and higher-education issues.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. 'Opening' of a legal trade
2. Parliament versus Cortes
3. Legality and illegality
4. The treaty of 1817
5. Enforcement and re-enforcement: the attempt to make the slave trade prohibition effective
6. The treaty of 1835
7. An abolitionist era
8. The Turnbull affair
9. The Escalera conspiracy
10. The penal law of 1845
11. Free trade and annexationism
12. The failure of the penal law
13. A new class of slaves
14. The abolition of the Cuban slave trade
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index.