|aThe comparative histories of slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States |cLaird W. Bergad.
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|aCambridge |bCambridge University Press|cc2007.
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|axiv, 314 p., [12] p. of plates |bill., maps |c23 cm.
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|aNew approaches to the Americas
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 291-302) and index.
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|aIntroduction -- From colonization to abolition : patterns of historical development in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States -- The diversity of slavery in the Americas to 1790 -- Slaves in their own words -- Slave populations -- Economic aspects -- Making space -- Resistance and rebellions -- Abolition.
This book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas. Brazil and Cuba were among the first colonial societies to establish slavery i...