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Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
2004
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- Sugar and Slavery: the Bittersweet Chapter in the 19th Century Cuba, 1817-1886 Javier A. Galván Lengua y Literatura Sugar cultivation and slavery were closely linked in 19th centuryCuba. The transition from slavery to freedom on this Caribbean islandcan be best viewed as a gradual process along a legal and politicalcontinuum. However, it is crucial to explain why slavery ended inCuba in 1886, precisely at a time when the sugar industry was stillgoing strong. The thesis proposed here is that there was a combinationof domestic and external factors that finally brought about the abolitionof slavery. The availability of contract workers alíowed Cuban plantersto invest their capital not in slaves but in other sectors of the sugarindustry, such as technological innovations. An analysis of theinternational arena also reveáis how Spain continued to receivemounting pressure from the United States and Britain to formally endthe slave trade and eventually take definitive steps towards legalemancipation. In 1886, Spain finally abolished the moribund institutionof slavery that had lasted over three hundred years in Cuba. 2004 artículo científico 1405-4167 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=38401609 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=384 Revista de Humanidades: Tecnológico de Monterrey application/pdf Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Revista de Humanidades: Tecnológico de Monterrey (México) Num.16