Spain and the Abolition of Slavery in Cuba, 1817-1886.

Rethinking Atlantic Historiography in a Postcolonial Era: The Civil War in a Global Perspective

“…"We are brethren with the Americans in the cause of abolition," one Spanish reformed claimed, "while 14,000 men died in the battle of Fredericksburg, we said, forward, forward, triumph!" 29 With the collapse of the Confederacy, a small number of dedicated planters fl ed to Brazil, taking with them what slaves they could. These reactionaries, known as Confederados, resisted to the last and were so suspect in the eyes of reformers that when in the 1880s a pro-emancipation senator was assassinated, the government promptly opened an investigation with them as the focus.…”