1st Edition
Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean Life and Times of a British Family in Nineteenth Century Havana
By Luis Martinez-Fernandez
Copyright 1998
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Havana Bound; Settling in the Tropics; The Mixed Commission and Cuba's Emancipados; Life in "a Male City"; Leisure and Pleasure; Protestants in Roman Catholic Cuba; A Land Flowing in Milk and Pestilence; The Return Home.
Biography
Luis MartÃnez-Fernández
