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For four centuries, millions of men, women and children were banished from their homelands and forced into a life of slavery in the Americas. Spanish abolitionist activists challenged this reality and contested the public legitimacy of the odious commerce.
- Jesús Sanjurjo Ramos
- University of Leeds
- 2018
- Dr Jesús Sanjurjo Ramos
Kingdom of Gwent. Gwent ( Old Welsh: Guent) was a medieval Welsh kingdom, lying between the Rivers Wye and Usk. It existed from the end of Roman rule in Britain in about the 5th century until the Norman invasion of Wales in the 11th century.
May 23, 2018 · Gwent. Gwent. County of the south-east Wales border, which has had a singularly complex administrative history. Its basis was the Welsh kingdom of Gwent, which emerged on the lower Wye river in the 7th cent. It was quickly seized by the Anglo-Normans moving west after 1066 and a series of lordships created in both upper (Gwent Uwchcoed) and ...
May 24, 2018 · The historian suggests she may have been in the process of being sold, as child-bearing women were highly valued in the slave trade. But Joaquín G. Romeu points out that slavery on mainland Spain had been abolished in 1837, after which it was only tolerated in Spanish colonies such as Cuba and Puerto Rico as well as in Portuguese colonies ...
Meanwhile, the major European slave-trading powers gradually abolished the trade—the Netherlands in 1814, followed by Portugal, Spain and France by 1820. Of course, enslaved people were still smuggled into the Americas, in particular to Cuba and Brazil, where it remained legal until quite late in the nineteenth century.
face in this period, both in Spain and in the colonies. Slave rebellions like the Aponte Rebellion of 1812 or the Conspiracy of La Escalera of 1843 in Cuba were persistent features of colonial society. In Spain, Barcelona was a 137 W. Mulligan et al. (eds.), A Global History of Anti-slavery Politics in the Nineteenth Century
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The Spanish involvement in the slave trade grew in the beginning of the nineteenth century, when the British and French abolished it respectively in 1807 and 1815. Another atypical trait is that the Spanish history of slavery is a highly legalistic history, regulated by numerous decrees and laws and accompanied by a simultaneous, legalistic ...
