Odious commerce : Britain, Spain, and the abolition of the Cuban slave trade / David R. Murray
1980, First Edition. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #395008
ISBN: 0521228670
Series; Cambridge Latin American studies ; 37. Physical description; xi, 423 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 400-413) and index. Contents; Machine derived contents note: 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. Subjects; Slave trade Cuba.
Price: €150.00