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Transnational mining companies posed problems for anti-slavery activists in the years after emancipation in Britain's Atlantic empire. Abolitionists were outraged by London-based companies that exploited slave labour in Cuba and Brazil but an attempt in 1843 to prohibit such practices was ineffectual. This paper explores the reasons for this failure and raises questions about the potency of abolitionism within early Victorian political culture.
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This page is a summary of: Brazilian Gold, Cuban Copper and the Final Frontier of British Anti-Slavery, Slavery and Abolition, March 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/0144039x.2012.709039.
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El Cobre: Cuban Ore and the Globalization of Swansea Copper, 1830-1870
This article from Welsh History Review, 27: 1 (2014), 112-31, provides fuller information on the copper mining companies discussed in ‘Brazilian gold, Cuban copper and the final frontier of British anti-slavery’.
"Carabalí" and "culíes" at El Cobre: African slaves and Chinese indentured labourers in the service of Swansea copper
This paper analyses the use of different types of unfree labour at the El Cobre copper mines, Cuba, in the mid-nineteenth century. The text will be published in the Chilean journal Revista de Historia Social y de las Mentalidades in 2015.
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