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Stephen Silverstein
José Antonio Saco’s Análisis de una obra sobre el Brasil (1832), the first condemnation of the slave trade published in Cuba, is among the creole statesman and historian’s most critically cited texts. Still, it continues to perplex students of the Cuban nineteenth century, who struggle to reconcile Saco’s liberal reformist program with his seemingly ambiguous stance on slavery. This study looks to resolve this critical impasse through the analytical tools provided by Dale Tomich. As Tomich perceptively reveals, the logic underpinning nineteenth-century liberalism and pro-slavery thinking were mutually supportive. What is more, in Through the Prism of Slavery: Labor, Capital, and World Economy, Tomich maps the contours of the Caribbean’s heterogeneous slaveries, which Saco knowingly conflates in his Análisis, I wish to argue, to further his liberal political project.
José Antonio Saco’s Análisis de una obra sobre el Brasil (1832), the first condemnation of the slave trade published in Cuba, is among the creole statesman and historian’s most critically cited texts. Still, it continues to perplex students of the Cuban nineteenth century, who struggle to reconcile Saco’s liberal reformist program with his seemingly ambiguous stance on slavery. This study looks to resolve this critical impasse through the analytical tools provided by Dale Tomich. As Tomich perceptively reveals, the logic underpinning nineteenth-century liberalism and pro-slavery thinking were mutually supportive. What is more, in Through the Prism of Slavery: Labor, Capital, and World Economy, Tomich maps the contours of the Caribbean’s heterogeneous slaveries, which Saco knowingly conflates in his Análisis, I wish to argue, to further his liberal political project.
José Antonio Saco’s Análisis de una obra sobre el Brasil (1832), the first condemnation of the slave trade published in Cuba, is among the creole statesman and historian’s most critically cited texts. Still, it continues to perplex students of the Cuban nineteenth century, who struggle to reconcile Saco’s liberal reformist program with his seemingly ambiguous stance on slavery. This study looks to resolve this critical impasse through the analytical tools provided by Dale Tomich. As Tomich perceptively reveals, the logic underpinning nineteenth-century liberalism and pro-slavery thinking were mutually supportive. What is more, in Through the Prism of Slavery: Labor, Capital, and World Economy, Tomich maps the contours of the Caribbean’s heterogeneous slaveries, which Saco knowingly conflates in his Análisis, I wish to argue, to further his liberal political project.__________________________________________________________“La relación de sus males, [y] el medio de curarlos”. Modelos transamericanos de organización del trabajo esclavo en el Análisis de una obra sobre el Brasil de José Antonio SacoResumen: El Análisis de una obra sobre el Brasil (1832) de José Antonio Saco es la primera condena de la trata de esclavos publicada en Cuba. Este título se encuentra entre los más citados por la crítica de este historiador criollo y hombre de Estado. Sin embargo, sigue dejando perplejos a los estudiosos del siglo XIX cubano, a quienes les cuesta conciliar el programa liberal reformista de Saco y su postura supuestamente ambigua en cuanto a la esclavitud. El presente estudio busca resolver esta disyuntiva crítica con las herramientas analíticas proprcionadas por Dale Tomich. Este revela perceptivamente que la lógica que respaldó el liberalismo decimonónico y el pensamiento esclavista se apoyaron mutuamente. Es más, en Through the Prism of Slavery: Labor, Capital, and World Economy, Tomich deslinda los contornos de esclavitudes caribeñas heterogéneas, que Saco combina a sabiendas para promover su proyecto político liberal.Palabras clave: Cuba; esclavitud; abolicionismo; siglo XIX; José Antonio Saco; liberalismo.*****Cómo citar este artículo: SILVERSTEIN, Stephen (2016). "“La relación de sus males, [y] el medio de curarlos”. Trans-American Models of Slave Labor Organization in José Antonio Saco’s Análisis de una obra sobre el Brasil". Dirāsāt Hispānicas. Revista Tunecina de Estudios Hispánicos, 3: 79:92.
