Stephen Silverstein
The Merchant of Havana
Stephen Silverstein · 2016
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"As Cuba industrialized in the nineteenth century, two ideological forces appeared: anti-Semitism and abolitionism. As the antislavery movement became organized in Cuba, the argument grew that Jews participated in the African slave trade and in New World slavery, and that this participation gave Jews extraordinary influence in the new Cuban economy and culture. Because of the decidedly small Jewish population on the island in this era, this form of anti-Semitism sprang almost exclusively from mythological beliefs"--
Book details
- Year
- 2016
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN
- 9780826521095
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