ABSTRACT

This study examines the alliances between Cuban and Southern planters before 1861 as a means of counteracting the rise of abolitionism across the Atlantic. The massive expansion of slavery in Cuba and in the US South in the first half of the nineteenth century led Cuban and Southern planters to perceive new geopolitical cartographies that challenged existing cultural, linguistic, and political borders. These alliances were not solely fashioned to preserve slavery in the southern United States or in Cuba, but rather as a piece of the larger battle between the pro-slavery and abolitionist forces of the Atlantic world in which the future of slavery was at stake. By analyzing essays written by Ambrosio Gonzales, Cristóbal Madan, and John S. Thrasher, I argue that in the mid-nineteenth century, slavery had the capacity to forge hemispheric alliances that transcended cultural and political links, thus helping to imagine alternative futures for the region.

摘要

这项研究考察了1861年之前古巴和南部种植者之间的联盟，以此来抵消大西洋上空的废奴主义的兴起。十九世纪上半叶，奴隶制在古巴和美国南部的大规模扩张，导致古巴和南部种植园主认识到挑战现有文化，语言和政治边界的新地缘政治制图。这些联盟不仅是为了维护美国南部或古巴的奴隶制而建立的，而且是大西洋世界的亲奴隶制和废奴主义力量之间更大战役的一部分，在奴隶制的未来受到威胁。通过分析Ambrosio Gonzales，CristóbalMadan和John S. Thrasher撰写的论文，我认为在19世纪中叶，