Matía, Menchacatorre y Cía. y su participación en el negocio de culíes (1847-1859)

Cózar, María del Carmen

Publication year:

2023

Publication place:

Donostia

Characteristics:

BIBLID [1136-6834, eISSN 2386-5539 (2023), 47; 53-99]

ISSN:

1136-6834, eISSN 2386-5539

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Summary

The goal of this work is to analyze the history and the memory of José Matía Calvo, one of the most important Basque coolie traders of the Cuba’s history of XIX century. Matía Calvo founded a company called Matía, Menchacatorre y Cía who became the main reference of the Asian (Chinese) workers trade that supplanted the African slaveries in the Caribbean island during the industrialization of the sugar industry.

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