Table of Contents

Preface; 1. 'Opening' of a legal trade; 2. Parliament versus Cortes; 3. Legality and illegality; 4. The treaty of 1817; 5. Enforcement and re-enforcement: the attempt to make the slave trade prohibition effective; 6. The treaty of 1835; 7. An abolitionist era; 8. The Turnbull affair; 9. The Escalera conspiracy; 10. The penal law of 1845; 11. Free trade and annexationism; 12. The failure of the penal law; 13. A new class of slaves; 14. The abolition of the Cuban slave trade; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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This study shows how British influence affected the course of Cuban history.