Fighting slavery in the Caribbean : the life and times of a British family in nineteenth-century Havana
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Fighting slavery in the Caribbean : the life and times of a British family in nineteenth-century Havana
（Latin American realities）
M.E. Sharpe, c1998
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-189) and index
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Description
This volume presents a social history of life in mid-19th-century Cuba as experienced by George Backhouse (and his wife, Grace), who served on the British Havana Mixed Commission for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Documented with extracts from the Backhouse's correspondence, diaries and other contemporary papers, Martinez-Fernandez paints a detailed picture of the Cuban slave trade, its role in the sugar industry, and the interrelated contradictions within Cuba's economy, society and politics. The Backhouse story provides addition al insights into important aspects of life in the "male" city of Havana, social antagonisms between Britons and North Americans, interactions with European social circles, religious tension, and the reality of tropical disease. Drama is added to the narrative in the author's description of the tragic and mysterious murder of George Backhouse in August 1855, possibly the result of a slave traders' conspiracy.
Table of Contents
- Foreword, Luis Martinez-Fernandez
- Introduction, Luis Martinez-Fernandez
- Chapter I Havana Bound, Luis Martinez-Fernandez
- Chapter II Settling in the Tropics, Luis Martinez-Fernandez
- Chapter III The Mixed Commission and Cuba's Emancipados, Luis Martinez-Fernandez
- Chapter IV Life in a "Male City", Luis Martinez-Fernandez
- Chapter V Leisure and Pleasure, Luis Martinez-Fernandez
- Chapter VI Protestants in Roman Catholic Cuba, Luis Martinez-Fernandez
- Chapter VII A Land Flowing with Milk and Pestilence, Luis Martinez-Fernandez
- Chapter VIII The Return Home, Luis Martinez-Fernandez
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