Spanish struggles for the abolition of slavery in the Caribbean, 19th century

Abstract

The slavery of the blacks of Africa in Europe and America was a process that began at the end of the 15th century and lasted until the end of the 19th century. In four centuries the suffering of hundreds of thousands of human beings spread. Spain was one of the first countries to spread and promote the business and was the last of the European countries to put an end to the genocidal trade. In this article we intend to explain the process of the aboli- tion of slavery, for which an exhaustive analysis is required, since a large number of processes, facts and events must be taken into account, as well as contradictions between the positions of the various sectors, classes or social groups that are involved in the complicated slave system. It is the interest of this part to focus on the abolitionist process waged in Spain during the 19th century.

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