Tricks of the Slave Trade
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4223263 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edgardo Pérez Morales (0000-0003-0051-0126, University of Southern California, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 1-29 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1382-2373 • E-ISSN: 2213-4360 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22134360-09101001 |
| OpenAlex | W2612381609 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 21 |
Around 1808, Spaniards' ability to outfit and successfully complete slaving expeditions to Africa paled in comparison to the skill of French and British slavers. In the wake of British Abolitionism and the Cuban sugar revolution, however, some Spaniards learned the tricks of the slave trade and by 1835 had brought over 300,000 captives to Cuba and Puerto Rico (most went to Cuba). This article presents evidence on the process through which some Spaniards successfully became slave traders, highlighting the transition from early trial ventures around 1809-15 to the mastering of the trade by 1830. It pays particular attention to the operations and perspectives of the Havana-based firm Cuesta Manzanal & Hermano and to the slave trading activities on the Pongo River by the crewmen of the Spanish ship La Gaceta. Although scholars have an increasingly solid perception of the magnitude and consequences of the Cuba-based trade in human beings in the nineteenth century, the small-scale dynamics of this process, ultimately inseparable from long-term developments, remain elusive. This article adds further nuance to our knowledge of the post-1808 surge in the Spanish transatlantic slave trade
Abolitionism · Fur trade · Negotiable instrument · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Cuban History and Society
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Way of Death
Odious Commerce
Slave Emancipation In Cuba
Saltwater Slavery
Esclavitud y vida rural en las plantaciones azucareras de Santo Domingo. siglo XVI
Atlantic Intersections
To Study the Fragments/Whole
Atlantic History and the Slave Trade to Spanish America
Haiti, Free Soil, and Antislavery in the Revolutionary Atlantic
Freedom Papers
Two Islands, One Commodity
Commerce and Conversation in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
From Creole to African
Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century
The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825
Interpreters, Translators, and the Spoken Word in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade to Brazil and Cuba
The Diligent
From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |