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Author Klein, Herbert S.

Title African slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean / Herbert S. Klein.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.362 K64A    Check Shelf
Description 311 pages, [3] leaves of plates : maps ; 22 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 273-294.
Note Includes index.
Contents Origins of the American slave system -- The establishment of African slavery in Latin America in the 16th century -- Sugar and slavery in the Caribbean in the 17th and 18th centuries -- Slavery in Portuguese and Spanish America in the 18th century -- Slavery and the plantation economy in the Caribbean in the 19th century -- Slavery and the plantation economy in Brazil and the Guyanas in the 19th century -- Life, death, and the family in Afro-American slave societies -- Creation of a slave community and Afro-American culture -- Slave resistance and rebellion -- Freedmen in a slave society -- Transition from slavery to freedom.
Subject Plantation life -- Caribbean Area -- History.
Plantation life -- Latin America -- History.
Local Subject Trafficking in enslaved persons -- Latin America -- History.
Indexed Term Slavery History
Subject Slave trade -- Caribbean Area -- History.
Local Subject Trafficking in enslaved persons -- Caribbean Area -- History.
Subject Slave trade -- Latin America -- History.
Slavery -- Caribbean Area -- History.
Indexed Term America
Subject Slavery -- Latin America -- History.
ISBN 0195038371
9780195038378
019503838X paperback
9780195038385 paperback
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