Continental Origins of Insular Proslavery: George Dawson Flinter in Curaçao, Venezuela, Britain, and Puerto Rico, 1810s-1830s

• Autor(a) principal: Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Almanack (Guarulhos)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/alm/article/view/13274
• topic: violence; fear; second slavery; violência; medo; segunda escravidão

This article traces the career and migrations of George Dawson Flinter,a naturalized Spanish subject of Irish origin, who became a prominentapologist for slavery and Spanish colonial rule in the Caribbean in the1820s and 1830s. It argues that Flinter’s experiences in the revolutionaryAmericas, especially in Venezuela, shaped his attitudes toward slavery,freedom, race, and social order, which he promoted on behalf of theSpanish regime as a propagandist in Britain and in Puerto Rico. Flinter’swritings, loyalties, and migrations throw new light on the sources ofproslavery thought, not only in the Spanish Caribbean, but also in thebroader Atlantic world during the consolidation of the second slavery.