A01=Luis Martinez-Fernandez
Agro Industrial Capitalism
Author_Luis Martinez-Fernandez
Baptism
Baptist
Biblioteca Nacional
Bishop's Garden
Bishop’s Garden
British diplomatic history
British Havana Mixed Commission
Business
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Children
Church
Church of England
Cities
colonial social hierarchy
Colonies
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Court
Crime
cuba
Cuba's economy
Cuban slave trade
Debt
Disease
Doctor
El Cerro
El Teatro
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Free Women
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George Backhouse
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George’s Murder
Government
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House Wine
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Labourers
Las Ninfas
Legal
Leisure
Letter Writing
Long Term Foreign Residents
Marriage
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Mixed Commission
Newspaper
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Nineteenth Century Cuba
Nineteenth Century Havana
Noisy Experience
Phoenicopterus Ruber
Pic Nic
Race
religious conflict studies
Royal Palms
Samuel Hazard
Servants
Sickly Season
slave trade suppression in Cuba
Slavery
Sugar
sugar plantation labor
trade
transatlantic abolitionism
Transportation
tropical disease epidemiology
War
Wet Nurse
Yellow Fever
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780765602480
- Weight: 385g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jan 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This volume presents a social history of life in mid-19th-century Cuba as experienced by George Backhouse (and his wife, Grace), who served on the British Havana Mixed Commission for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Documented with extracts from the Backhouse's correspondence, diaries and other contemporary papers, Martinez-Fernandez paints a detailed picture of the Cuban slave trade, its role in the sugar industry, and the interrelated contradictions within Cuba's economy, society and politics. The Backhouse story provides addition al insights into important aspects of life in the "male" city of Havana, social antagonisms between Britons and North Americans, interactions with European social circles, religious tension, and the reality of tropical disease. Drama is added to the narrative in the author's description of the tragic and mysterious murder of George Backhouse in August 1855, possibly the result of a slave traders' conspiracy.
