La economía política de la esclavitud: Los argumentos económicos del debate abolicionista español del siglo xix

Abstract

The abolition of slavery in the Spanish Caribbean colonies was a long and tortuous process that was not fully completed until 1886. In the Spanish abolitionist debate arguments of various kinds were used: moral, religious, legal, humanitarian, political and economic. These latter have so far not received specific attention from historians, who have been interested however in many other aspects of the abolitionist process. This work focuses on the main economic arguments used by pro-slavery and abolitionist Spanish authors during the nineteenth century, analyzing their European intellectual sources.