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Sociedad Abolicionista Española
A pioneering anti-slavery society in 19th-century Spain, this organization brought together liberal and reform-minded voices to press for the end of slavery in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Its publications capture a key chapter in the long political and moral struggle over abolition in the Spanish world.
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La Experiencia Abolicionista de Puerto Rico
by Sociedad Abolicionista Española
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Founded in Madrid in December 1864, the Sociedad Abolicionista Española was created to campaign for the complete abolition of slavery in Spain’s Caribbean colonies, especially Puerto Rico and Cuba. It became one of the best-known organized voices against slavery in late 19th-century Spain and gathered support from politicians, writers, and reformers linked to liberal and progressive circles.
Historical records connect the society closely with Julio Vizcarrondo, a leading abolitionist from Puerto Rico, and show that it used meetings, pamphlets, and periodicals to shape public debate. Its work unfolded over the decades when Spain was gradually moving toward abolition, helping keep the issue in public view until the society considered its mission complete in 1888.
As an author body, the society is remembered for publishing speeches, reports, and advocacy texts rather than for a single personal voice. Those works are valuable today because they preserve the arguments, urgency, and political strategy of Spain’s abolitionist movement in its own time.