The merchant of Havana: the Jew in the Cuban abolitionist archive

"As Cuba industrialized in the nineteenth century, two ideological forces appeared: anti-Semitism and abolitionism. As the antislavery movement became organized in Cuba, the argument grew that Jews participated in the African slave trade and in New World slavery, and that this participation gav...

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1. Verfasser: Silverstein, Stephen 1978- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Nashville Vanderbilt University Press [2016]
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Zusammenfassung:"As Cuba industrialized in the nineteenth century, two ideological forces appeared: anti-Semitism and abolitionism. As the antislavery movement became organized in Cuba, the argument grew that Jews participated in the African slave trade and in New World slavery, and that this participation gave Jews extraordinary influence in the new Cuban economy and culture. Because of the decidedly small Jewish population on the island in this era, this form of anti-Semitism sprang almost exclusively from mythological beliefs"...
Beschreibung:xi, 205 pages illustration
ISBN:9780826521095