{"product_id":"cuban-tobacco-in-the-age-of-second-slavery-paperback","title":"Cuban Tobacco in the Age of Second Slavery - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam a. Morgan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 1865, more than 750,000 enslaved Africans had arrived in Cuba, making it the leading Spanish American slave colony and the epicenter of slavery in the Atlantic. At the height of the global tobacco economy, tens of thousands of these slaves labored in Pinar del Río, Cuba--a region devoted exclusively to tobacco cultivation. These enslaved people were responsible for exporting a record fourteen million pounds of raw tobacco per year, leaving one contemporary writer to argue that no agricultural economy produced more value, in proportion to the capital and labor employed, than tobacco. While tobacco was second only to sugar in export significance and in the number of rural enslaved, tobacco was unequivocally as dependent on enslaved labor as the more infamous export. Despite Cuba being one of the first-introduced and last-abolished slave societies in the Atlantic world, this slave economy remains largely ignored, existing outside the considerable and recent scholarship on the region. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCuban Tobacco in the Age of Second Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e directly refutes the myth of tobacco as a small-scale, family, and free-labor crop promoted by both contemporary and current scholarship. It also rejects the prevailing use of sugar as the model for epitomizing Cuban slavery--a paradigm that obscures the full measure of diversity in this region and era. Arguing tobacco was more counterpart than counterpoint to sugar, \u003ci\u003eCuban Tobacco in the Age of Second Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the development of tobacco as a plantation economy--and the exponential increase in forced labor supporting it--to suggest an alternative narrative in understanding both Cuban and Atlantic slavery in this period.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWILLIAM A. MORGAN is a professor of history at Lone Star College. His research has been awarded a John Brockway Huntington Foundation Fellowship, a John Carter Brown Fellowship, a Lydia Cabrera Fellowship from the Conference on Latin American History, a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society, two Mellon\/ACLS Faculty Fellowships, and a Folger Research Fellowship. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Brief History of Cuba, \u003c\/i\u003eand his work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eSlavery \u0026amp; Abolition, Colonial Latin American Review, Agricultural History, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Imperial \u0026amp; Commonwealth History. \u003c\/i\u003eMorgan lives and writes in Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 300\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 15, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53521985929523,"sku":"9780820376899","price":60.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/dA4iM12OY49780820376899.webp?v=1781962318","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/cuban-tobacco-in-the-age-of-second-slavery-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}