Bøger af Peter Blanchard

A social history of elite Spanish loyalists and the groups that challenged them in the years before South American independence.

During the wars for independence in Spanish South America (1808-1826), thousands of slaves enlisted under the promise of personal freedom and, in some cases, freedom for other family members. This book offers an investigation of this issue from the perspectives of Royalists, patriots, and slaves.

Here, Professor Blanchard examines why slavery managed to survive for more than three decades after Peru declared its independence despite anti-slavery legislation passed by the liberators at that time. The book focuses on the economics of Peruvian slavery, slave life and the abolition movement.