Antislavery and Abolition in the Spanish American Mainland
Antislavery and Abolition in the Spanish American Mainland
- Marcela EcheverriMarcela EcheverriHistory, Yale University
Summary
One of the major changes that was produced by the wars of independence and the consequent foundation of new republics across the Spanish American mainland during the first five decades of the 19th century was the abolition of slavery. The history of the abolition of slavery in this region illustrates how economic, political, and social factors were entwined in the Spanish American revolutions as processes that were at once embedded in the broader imperial and transimperial dynamics of the 19th century, yet also singular in the origins and consequences that the end of slavery had in that region due to its connection to republican formation and the integration of African-descended people in legal and political terms.
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Subjects
- 1492–1824
- 1824–c. 1880
- Afro-Latin History
- International History
- Slavery and Abolition