Richmond F. Brown passed away after a heroic and long battle with cancer on September 20, 2016 in... more Richmond F. Brown passed away after a heroic and long battle with cancer on September 20, 2016 in Gainesville, Florida, sadly ending the life and career far too soon of one of the strongest promoters of Latin American Studies in the United States more broadly, and in the Southeast in particular. As many of the readers of this journal will know, Richmond served as Vice President and President of SECOLAS between 2001–2003 and helped transform the organization into a vibrant academic community. He applied similar intellectual energy to his role in the Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association (LACS-SHA) where he also held various administrative positions, including President. Just a few weeks after Richmond passed away, several of his colleagues discussed his contributions to scholarship and academic associations dedicated to Latin American Studies at the 2016 Tampa-St. Petersburg meeting of LACS-SHA. Out of that conversation and admiration for his wor...
Matt D. Childs’s essay shows how two key external events set the stage for abolition in Cuba. The... more Matt D. Childs’s essay shows how two key external events set the stage for abolition in Cuba. The Lyons-Seward Treaty of 1862 between the United States and Britain banned participation by U.S. citizens in the Atlantic slave trade. An antislavery movement in Madrid pressured Spain to end its involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade as well, which meant an end to the replenishment of Cuba’s slave population. Then, in 1868, the revolutionary independence movement that began the Ten Years’ War promised freedom to slaves who joined the cause. In 1870, Spain countered with its own emancipation plan by promising freedom to all slaves who fought for Spain and to all children born to slave mothers.
Richmond F. Brown passed away after a heroic and long battle with cancer on September 20, 2016 in... more Richmond F. Brown passed away after a heroic and long battle with cancer on September 20, 2016 in Gainesville, Florida, sadly ending the life and career far too soon of one of the strongest promoters of Latin American Studies in the United States more broadly, and in the Southeast in particular. As many of the readers of this journal will know, Richmond served as Vice President and President of SECOLAS between 2001–2003 and helped transform the organization into a vibrant academic community. He applied similar intellectual energy to his role in the Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association (LACS-SHA) where he also held various administrative positions, including President. Just a few weeks after Richmond passed away, several of his colleagues discussed his contributions to scholarship and academic associations dedicated to Latin American Studies at the 2016 Tampa-St. Petersburg meeting of LACS-SHA. Out of that conversation and admiration for his wor...
Matt D. Childs’s essay shows how two key external events set the stage for abolition in Cuba. The... more Matt D. Childs’s essay shows how two key external events set the stage for abolition in Cuba. The Lyons-Seward Treaty of 1862 between the United States and Britain banned participation by U.S. citizens in the Atlantic slave trade. An antislavery movement in Madrid pressured Spain to end its involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade as well, which meant an end to the replenishment of Cuba’s slave population. Then, in 1868, the revolutionary independence movement that began the Ten Years’ War promised freedom to slaves who joined the cause. In 1870, Spain countered with its own emancipation plan by promising freedom to all slaves who fought for Spain and to all children born to slave mothers.
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