From the galleons to the highlands : slave trade routes in the Spanish Americas / edited by Alex Borucki, David Eltis, and David Wheat.

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"The essays in this book demonstrate the importance of transatlantic and intra-American slave trafficking in the development of colonial Spanish America, highlighting the Spanish colonies' previously underestimated significance within the broader history of the slave trade. Spanish America not only...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Borucki, Alex (Editor)
Eltis, David, 1940- (Editor)
Wheat, David, 1977- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Subjects:
Slave trade > Latin America > History.
Slave trade > Colonies > Spain > America > History.
Slavery > Latin America > History.
Slavery > Colonies > Spain > America > History.
Antislavery movements > Latin America > History.
Antislavery movements.
Slave trade.
Slavery.
Slavery > Colonies.
Latin America.
History.
Genre:
History.
Online Access:
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Local Note:
MSU Stanley C. and Selma D. Hollander Faculty Book Collection.
Physical Description:x, 350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Variant Title:
Slave trade routes in the Spanish Americas
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction: Atlantic History and the Slave Trade to Spanish America by Alex Borucki, David Eltis, and David Wheat
  • Chapter 1. The Size and Direction of the Slave Trade to the Spanish Americas by Alex Borucki, David Eltis, and David Wheat
  • Chapter 2. The Early Iberian Slave Trade to the Spanish Caribbean, 1500-1580 by Marc Eagle and David Wheat
  • Chapter 3. The Slave Trade to Colonial Mexico: Revising from Puebla to de los Ángeles, 1590-1640 by Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva
  • Chapter 4. West Central Africans in the Province of Guatemala, 1605-1655 by Paul Lokken
  • Chapter 5. Slave Trading in Antequera and Interregional Slave Traffice in New Spain, 1680-1710 by Sabrina Smith
  • Chapter 6. Securing Subjecthood: Free and Enslaved Economies within the Pacific Slave Trade by Rachel Sarah O'Toole
  • Chapter 7. From Asiento to Spanish Networks: Slave Trading in the Río de la Plata, 1700-1810 by Alex Borucki
  • Chapter 8. The Rise and Fall of the Cuban Slave Trade: New Data, New Paradigms by David Eltis and Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez
  • Chapter 9. Reassessing the Slave Trade to Cuba, 1790-1820 by Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez
  • Chapter 10. Routes into Eighteenth-Century Cuban Slavery: African Diaspora and Geopolitics by Elena Schneider
  • Chapter 11. Early Spanish Antislavery and the Abolition of the Slave Trade to Spanish America by Emily Berquist Soule
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index