This volume presents a quantitative study of Cuban slavery from the late eighteenth century until 1880, the year slavery was formally abolished on the island. The core of this study is an examination of the yearly movement of slave prices and changes in the demographic characteristics of the slave market. Incorporating over 30,000 slave transactions from three separate locations in Cuba--Havana, Santiago, and Cienfuegos--this work comprises the largest extant database on any slave market in the Americas. Slavery was in many ways the fundamental institution in colonial Cuba. This volume presents a quantitative study of Cuban slavery from the late eighteenth century until 1880, the year slavery was formally abolished on the island. The core of this study is an examination of the yearly changes in slave prices and in the demographic characteristics of the slave market. Based on data from the notarial protocol records of the Archivo Nacional de Cuba, this book establishes precise price trends for slaves by age, sex, nationality, and occupation, and considers a number of other variables, including the prices of coartados (slaves who had begun the process of buying their freedom) and the profile of slaves able to obtain freedom. Incorporating over 30,000 slave transactions from three separate locations in Cuba - Havana, Santiago, and Cienfuegos - this work comprises the largest extant data base of its type on any slave market in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Formato	Tapa dura
Número de Páginas	276
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	Cambridge University Press
Fecha de Publicación	1995-05-26
Dimensiones	9.28" x 6.34" x 0.95" pulgadas
Serie	Cambridge Latin American Studies
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	Si
Temas	América Latina