7. A More Serious Effort To Suppress the Slave Traffic, 1851-1860

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PROLOGUE xi
3. CONTENTS xvii
4. ILLUSTRATIONS xix
5. 1. How African Slaves Were First Brought to the Antilles 1
6. 2. The Planting of a Diplomatic Problem, 1815-1820 17
7. 3. A Chapter in Slave-Trade Diplomacy 1820-1825 35
8. 4. A United Front in Cuba, 1825-1840 47
9. 5. Britain Grows More Aggressive 1840-1848 69
10. 6. The Status Quo Reaffirmed in the Face of New International Threats, 1848-1851 93
11. 7. A More Serious Effort To Suppress the Slave Traffic, 1851-1860 107
12. 8. Signs of Change, 1855-1865 129
13. 9. Abolitionism Invades Spain, 1863-1866 153
14. 10. Two Hesitant Steps Forward, 1865-1866 173
15. 11. Great Expectations: The Reform Commission of 1866-1867 189
16. 12. The Glorious Revolution: A New Horizon, 1868-1870 215
17. 13. The Moret Law: An Entering Wedge, 1870 239
18. 14. Behind the Scenes: Failure To Enforce the Law, 1870-1872 255
19. 15. Application of the Moret Law and Abolition in Puerto Rico, 1872-1873 273
20. 16. Epilogue: Last Days Of Spanish Slavery, 1873-1886 293
21. BIBLIOGRAPHY 315
22. GLOSSARY 331
23. INDEX 335