Atlantic Transformations: Empire, Politics, And Slavery During The Nineteenth Century

256 Pages·2020·1.991 MB·English

by  Dale W. Tomich

Atlantic Transformations
FERNAND BRAUDEL CENTER
STUDIES IN HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE
Series Editor: Richard E. Lee
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VOLUMES IN THIS SERIES:
Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge: Determinism
Richard E. Lee, editor
Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge: Reductionism
Richard E. Lee, editor
Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge: Dualism
Richard E. Lee, editor
The Longue Durée and World-Systems Analysis
Richard E. Lee, editor
New Frontiers of Slavery
Dale Tomich, editor
Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World-Economy, 1848–1860
Dale Tomich
The Politics of the Second Slavery
Dale Tomich, editor
The Trade in the Living
Luiz Felipe de Alencastro
Race and Rurality in the Global Economy
Michaeline A. Crichlow, Patricia Northover, and Juan Guisti-Cordero, editors
Power, Political Economy, and Historical Landscapes of the Modern World:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Christopher R. DeCorse, editor
Atlantic Transformations: Empire, Politics, and Slavery during the
Nineteenth Century
Dale Tomich, editor
Atlantic Transformations
Empire, Politics, and Slavery during
the Nineteenth Century
Edited by
Dale W. Tomich
FERNAND BRAUDEL CENTER
STUDIES IN HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE
Cover artwork: Vista General de los Almacenes de Regla y parte de la Bahia de la Habana.
Drawing and lithograph by Eduardo Laplante from Justo Cantero, Los Ingenios. Colleción de Vistas
de los Principales Ingenios de Azúcar de la Isla de Cuba (Havana: Luis Marquier, 1857).
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Names: Tomich, Dale W., 1946– editor.
Title: Atlantic transformations : empire, politics, and slavery during the nineteenth century /
edited by Dale W. Tomich.
Description: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2020] | Series: Fernand Braudel
Center studies in historical social science | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019049099 (print) | LCCN 2019049100 (ebook) | ISBN 9781438477855
(hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438477862 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Slavery—America—History—19th century. | Slave labor—America—History—
19th century. | Slavery—Economic aspects—America—History. | Spain—Colonies—America—Economic
conditions—19th century. | Slavery—Political aspects—Atlantic Ocean Region—History. | America—
Foreign economic relations.
Classification: LCC HT1048 .A88 2020 (print) | LCC HT1048 (ebook) | DDC
306.3/62097—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019049099
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019049100
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In memory of Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

C O N T E N T S
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Dale W. Tomich
1780–1880: A Century of Imperial Transformation 1
Josep M. Fradera
Slavery in Mainland Spanish America in the Age of the Second Slavery 19
Marcela Echeverri
Transatlantic Patriotisms: Race and Nation in the Impact of the
Guerra de África in the Spanish Caribbean in 1860 45
Albert Garcia-Balañà
The End of the Legal Slave Trade in Cuba and the Second Slavery 79
José Antonio Piqueras
From Cotton to Camels: Plantation Ambitions in Midcentury Hispaniola 105
Anne Eller
The Fight against Patronato: Labra, Cepeda, and the Second Abolition 141
Luis Miguel García Mora
Atlantization and the First Failed Slavery: Panama from the Sixteenth
to the Seventeenth Century 175
Javier Laviña
Slavery in the Paraíba Valley and the Formation of the
World Coffee Market in the Nineteenth Century 193
Rafael Marquese and Dale Tomich
Contributors 225
Index 229
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I L LU S T R AT I O N S
Figures
1 José Manuel Restrepo, Carta de la República de Colombia. 1827.
Gravado en Paris por Darmet calle du Battoir, no. 3. Escrito por
Hacq. (Por José Manuel Restrepo. Paris, Librería Americana, 1827).
Available at www.davidrumsey.com 21
2 Number of voyages in the slave trade between Africa and Cuba
(1790–1826) 91
3 African slaves disembarked in Cuba (1790–1820) 92
4 Deaths of African slaves during the transatlantic crossing (1790–1820)
(percentage of the number of slaves embarked) 93
5 Prices of African slaves (in pesos) sold in Havana (1790–1844) 94
6 Evolution of the price of sugar on the London market (1814–1830)
(sh/cwt) 98
7 Map showing emancipation dates, with major projects of indenture,
labor control, or indenture emigration in brackets. Map by
Annelieke Vries. For clarifications, see note 12. 110
8 Coffee bean sheller. (Source: Catálogo Ilustrado de Tredwell y Jones.
AGN-RD) 118
9 Coffee Exports, 1823–1888 (thousands of metric tons) 208
Table
1 Evolution of the Population of Panama City, 1575–1607 182
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