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Author:

Graden, Dale Torston, 1952-

Title:

Disease, resistance, and lies : the demise of the transatlantic slave trade to Brazil and Cuba / Dale T. Graden.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

x, 291 p. : maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Slave trade--Brazil--History--19th century.
Slave trade--Cuba--History--19th century.
Slave insurrections--Brazil--History--19th century.
Slave insurrections--Cuba--History--19th century.
Slaves--Health and hygiene.
Epidemics--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-281) and index.

Contents:

U.S. involvement in the transatlantic slave trade to Cuba and Brazil -- Infections in Cuba -- Epidemics and the end of the transatlantic slave trade to Brazil in 1850 -- Slave resistance and debates over the slave trade to Cuba, 1790s-1840s -- Slave resistance and the suppression of the slave trade to Brazil in 1850 -- Interpreters, translators, and the spoken word -- Demise.

ISBN:

0807155292 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807155295 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)861678076

LCCN:

2013039453

Locations:

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)