Odious Commerce
Subtitle: Britain, Spain and the Abolition of the Cuban Slave Trade (Cambridge Latin American Studies)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 27, 1981
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9780521228671
Subjects: World history; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Spain; Diplomatic History; Slavery; History / Renaissance; Foreign relations; Cuba; Great Britain; Slave-trade
First sentence: From the middle of the eighteenth century Cuba began to experience the remarkable economic growth which was to transform the island from a relative backwater of Spain's colonial empire into the world's richest colony and leading sugar producer by the late 1820s.