出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：Throughout the greater part of the 19th century, statistics on the Cuban slave population were deliberately inexact. Colonial authorities and the hacendados were interested in covering up the actual number of slaves; the former preferred to ignore the elevated presence of African natives of different ages, while the hacienda owners evaded taxes and avoided explaining the origin of their workforce. Based on an analysis of official and reserved censuses, British reports and demographic estimations, this article reconsiders the number of slaves that was present in Cuba between 1867 and 1886. This results in a reevaluation of their total number, of the labor needs at the sugar mills and of the conditions in the dissolution of slavery.
