Slavery and antislavery in Spain's Atlantic Empire

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 ...

Slavery and antislavery in Spain's Atlantic Empire

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 ...

Who Abolished Slavery?

Slave Revolts and Abolitionism a Debate with Joâo Pedro Marques

Eds. Seymour Drescher and Pieter C. Emmer. The past half-century has produced a mass of information regarding slave resistance, ranging from individual acts of disobedience to massive uprisings. Many of these acts of rebellion have been studied extensively, yet the ultimate goals of the insurgents ...