Gradual Abolition and the Dynamics of Slave Emancipation in Cuba, 1868-86
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2829007 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca J Scott (0000-0001-9393-6649, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 449 |
| Publication date | 1983-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2514783 |
| OpenAlex | W4248615329 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
HE abolitioin of slavery in Cuba is usually examined as a series of discrete legal and political events, viewed either as the expression of increasing contradictions within the Cuban economic system or as the result of domestic and international pressures exerted on the Spanish government.' The sequence of events begins with a declaration of emancipation by Cuban insurgents rebelling against Spain in 1868, followed by the passage of the Moret Law by the Spanish Cortes in 1870, then by the establishment of the patronato, or apprenticeship, in 1880, and finally by the termination of the patronato in 1886. This article will focus instead on the developing interaction of individuals and classes during this process of change, in an effort to determine the social dynamics that underlay these legal and political events. The gradualness of abolition in Cuba provides an unparalleled opportunity to analyze the disintegration of chattel bondage in a plantation society. The legal structure of slavery in Cuba was dismantled piece by piece. Young children and the elderly were legally freed and the use of the whip banned in 1870; meager wages were introduced, but corporal punishment maintained, in 1880; stocks and chains were prohibited in 1883. Social and economic relationships changed as legal ones altered, in turn producing further change, all withiin a context of warfare, pacification
Apprenticeship · Context (archaeology) · Dynamics (music) · Emancipation · Government (linguistics) · Legal process · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Cuban History and Society · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2024 (41) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |