The French Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century: An Old Regime Business.

1982 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 470
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Schaeper ◽  
Robert Louis Stein
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Old Regime

The French Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century. An Old Regime Business.

1981 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 346
Author(s):  
D. W. Thoms ◽  
Robert Louis Stein
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Old Regime

The French Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century: An Old Regime Business

1981 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 401
Author(s):  
Pierre H. Boulle ◽  
Robert Louis Stein
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Old Regime

The French Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century: An Old Regime Business

1981 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
Raymond F. Betts ◽  
Robert Louis Stein
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Old Regime

African Slavery and Spanish Empire

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
Demographic Situation ◽  
Transatlantic Slave Trade ◽  
Wealth Of Nations ◽  
Racial Slavery

This article traces a philosophical shift that opened the door to a new departure in eighteenth-century Spanish empire: a newly emerging sense that the slave trade and African slavery were essential to the wealth of nations. Contextualizing this ideological reconfiguration within mid-eighteenth century debates, this article draws upon the works of political economists and royal councilors in Madrid and puts them in conversation with the words and actions of individuals in and from Cuba, including people of African descent themselves. Because of the central place of the island in eighteenth-century imperial rivalry and reform, as well as its particular demographic situation, Cuba served as a catalyst for these debates about the place of African slavery and the transatlantic slave trade in Spanish empire. Ultimately, between the mid-eighteenth century and the turn of the nineteenth, this new mode of thought would lead to dramatic transformations in the institution of racial slavery and Spanish imperial political economy.

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