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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