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African slavery was pervasive in Spain's Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial exploitation and conflict. The international group of scholars brought together in this volume explain Spain's role as a colonial pioneer in the Atlantic world and its latecomer status as a slave-trading, plantation-based empire. These contributors map the broad contours and transformations of slave-trafficking, the planta

The value of political representation in modern empires / Josep M. Fradera -- Jean-Baptiste Belley : France's first black legislator/ David Geggus -- Dionisio Inca Yupanqui : a 'lord' in Spain's Cortes de Cádiz / José María Portillo -- Pedro José de Ibarra : a mulatto senator in Colombia's Antioquia / Daniel Gutiérrez Ardila -- Cyrille Bissette : a singular voice in France / Abel Alexis Louis -- Robert Smalls : in majority and in minority in Washington / Stephanie McCurry -- Dadabhai Naoroji : Indian member of parliament in Westminster, 1892-95 / Teresa Segura-Garcia -- Mpilo Walter Benson Rubusana : South Africa's first black parliamentarian / Timothy Stapleton -- Gratien Candace : in the name of the French empire / Dominique Chathuant -- Blaise Diagne : French parliamentarian from Senegal / Eric Garcia-Moral.