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A Global History of Anti-slavery Politics in the Nineteenth CenturyAnti-slavery in Spain and Its Colonies, 1808–86

A Global History of Anti-slavery Politics in the Nineteenth Century: Anti-slavery in Spain and... [The French overthrow of the Spanish monarchy in 1808 set the stage for the first major challenges to colonial slavery in Spanish America. These challenges came not through pressure from an organized abolitionist movement, like the British one that had forced the suppression of the slave traffic in the same era, but from a combination of political and social changes put in motion by warfare in the colonies. Though there were formal expressions of abolitionism by Spaniards and Americans during this revolutionary crisis, the most important actors were slaves, who responded to the call for troops in the colonies by enlisting in both royalist and patriot armies in exchange for their freedom. Thus, in Venezuela, New Granada, Peru, and the River Plate colonies, protracted warfare effectively crippled slavery.1] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Global History of Anti-slavery Politics in the Nineteenth CenturyAnti-slavery in Spain and Its Colonies, 1808–86

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
ISBN
978-1-349-44116-7
Pages
137 –148
DOI
10.1057/9781137032607_8
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Abstract

[The French overthrow of the Spanish monarchy in 1808 set the stage for the first major challenges to colonial slavery in Spanish America. These challenges came not through pressure from an organized abolitionist movement, like the British one that had forced the suppression of the slave traffic in the same era, but from a combination of political and social changes put in motion by warfare in the colonies. Though there were formal expressions of abolitionism by Spaniards and Americans during this revolutionary crisis, the most important actors were slaves, who responded to the call for troops in the colonies by enlisting in both royalist and patriot armies in exchange for their freedom. Thus, in Venezuela, New Granada, Peru, and the River Plate colonies, protracted warfare effectively crippled slavery.1]

Published: Oct 24, 2015

Keywords: Slave Trade; Liberal Party; Spanish Coloni; Free Black; Revolutionary Government

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