Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World

New Sources and New Findings

Jane Landers

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9780367220105
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351800433
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

This book highlights newly-discovered and underutilized sources for the study of slavery and abolition. It features the contributions of scholars who work with Portuguese, Spanish, German, Dutch, and Swedish materials from Europe, Africa and Latin America. Their work draws on legal suits, merchant correspondence, Catholic sacramental records, and rare newspapers dating from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Essays cover the volume of the early South Atlantic slave trade; African and African-descended religious and cultural communities in Rio de Janeiro and the Spanish circum-Caribbean; Eurafrican trade alliances on the Gold Coast; and public participation in abolition in nineteenth-century Brazil. These essays change and enrich our understandings of slavery and its end in the Atlantic World. This book was originally published as a special issue of Slavery and Abolition.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• CONTENTS
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: New Sources and New Findings for Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World
• 1 ‘The Kingdom of Angola is not Very Far from Here’: The South Atlantic Slave Port of Buenos Aires, 1585–1640
• 2 The Seventeenth-century Slave Trade in the Documents of the English, Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Prussian Royal Slave Trading Companies
• 3 Sailing Through the Sacraments: Ethnic and Cultural Geographies of a Port and Its Churches-Cartagena de Indias
• 4 Heathens among the Flock: Converting African-Born Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
• 5 Catholic Conspirators? Religious Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
• 6 Making Abolition Brazilian: British Law and Brazilian Abolitionists in Nineteenth-Century Minas Gerais and Pernambuco
• Index