Social Control in Slave Plantation Societies: A Comparison of St. Domingue and Cuba Book

	Preface
	Symbols
I	Methods and Overview	1
II	The Problem of the Survival of the Slave Population	13
	Mortality and Overwork	16
	Suicide among Slaves	20
	Growing Concern about Survival of the Slave Population	23
	Institutionalization of the Illegal African Slave Trade	28
III	Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion	32
	European Belief in Witchcraft	37
	Efforts to Convert the Slaves Deteriorate	40
	Abandonment of Religious Education of Estate Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Cuba	42
	Religious Education and Social Stability	50
IV	Black Resistance and White Repression	52
	Slave Revolts in the Spanish Caribbean	52
	The Conspiracy of the Ladder	57
	Systematic Resistance in St. Domingue	62
	Theft and the Market	66
	Murder	68
	Poison: Real or Imaginary?	71
	Herbalism in Africa	73
	Attempts to Control the Slaves	74
	Enforcement of Security Measures	78
V	Protective Aspects of Slave Law	81
	The French System	84
	Spanish Slave Law before the Bourbon Reforms	89
	The Street Slaves	90
	Marriage and the Family	92
	The Bourbon Reform Period	96
	Spanish Slave Codes of the Reform Period	102
	The Myth of Protective Spanish Slave Law	105
	Slave Law of Nineteenth-Century Cuba	108
	The Impact of Corruption in Public Office	110
VI	Emancipation and the Status of the Free	113
	The Predominance of Military Considerations during the Pre-plantation Period	114
	Policy toward Emancipation and the Needs of Plantation Agriculture	119
	The Evolution of French Policy toward Emancipation	122
	The Evolution of Spanish Policy toward Emancipation	124
	The Impact of the Haitian Revolution upon Racial Policies in Nineteenth-Century Cuba	125
	Growing Hostility toward the Free-Colored Population in Nineteenth-Century Cuba	127
	The Emancipados	132
VII	Racism as an Instrument of Social and Political Domination	136
	Origin of the Colored Elite of St. Domingue	139
	Social Conflict between the Colored and White Elite of St. Domingue	144
	Manipulation of Racial Conflict in the Face of the Independence Threat	147
	Epilogue	152
	Bibliography	155
	Index	161