Runaway Slave Settlements In Cuba

Author : Gabino La Rosa Corzo
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807861738

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Runaway Slave Settlements in Cuba by Gabino La Rosa Corzo Pdf

Combining archaeological and historical methods, Gabino La Rosa Corzo provides the most detailed and accurate available account of the runaway slave settlements (palenques) that formed in the inaccessible mountain chains of eastern Cuba from 1737 to 1850, decades before the end of slavery on the island. The traces that remain of these communities provide important clues to historical processes such as slave resistance and emancipation, anticolonial insurgency, and the emergence of a free peasantry. Some of the communities developed into thriving towns that still exist today. La Rosa challenges the claims of previous scholars and demonstrates how romanticized the communities have become in historical memory. In part by using detailed maps drawn on site, La Rosa shows that palenques were smaller and fewer in number than previously thought and they contained mostly local, rather than long-distance, fugitives. In addition, the residents were less aggressive and violent than myth holds, often preferring to flee rather than fight a system of oppression that was even more effective and organized than generally supposed. La Rosa's study illuminates many social and economic issues related to the African diaspora in the Caribbean, with particular focus on slavery, resistance, and independence. This translation makes the book available in English for the first time.

Author : Miguel Barnet
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810133426

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Biography of a Runaway Slave by Miguel Barnet Pdf

Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Translated from the Spanish by W. Nick Hill Introduction by William Luis Originally published in 1966, Miguel Barnet’s Biography of a Runaway Slave provides the written history of the life of Esteban Montejo, who lived as a slave, as a fugitive in the wilderness, and as a soldier fighting against Spain in the Cuban War of Independence. A new introduction by one of the most preeminent Afro-Hispanic scholars, William Luis, situates Barnet’s ethnographic strategy and lyrical narrative style as foundational for the tradition of testimonial fiction in Latin American literature. Barnet recorded his interviews with the 103-year-old Montejo at the onset of the Cuban Revolution. This insurgent’s history allows the reader into the folklore and cultural history of Afro-Cubans before and after the abolition of slavery. The book serves as an important contribution to the archive of black experience in Cuba and as a reminder of the many ways that the present continues to echo the past.

Author : Esteban Montejo,Miguel Barnet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032741525

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The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave by Esteban Montejo,Miguel Barnet Pdf

Documentair verhaal gebaseerd op de orale getuigenis van een ex-slaaf over zijn leven voor de afschaffing van de slavernij, ervaringen als weggelopen slaaf, het leven op de plantage als een vrij man en het leven als soldaat tijdens de Cubaanse onafhankelijkheidsoorlog na 1895.

Author : Hubert Hillary Suffern Aimes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Slave trade
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041828265

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A History of Slavery in Cuba, 1511 to 1868 by Hubert Hillary Suffern Aimes Pdf

Author : Esteban Montejo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Cuba
ISBN : OCLC:1310597227

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Biography of a Runaway Slave by Esteban Montejo Pdf

Author : Louis A. Pérez
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199301447

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Cuba by Louis A. Pérez Pdf

Spanning the history of the island from pre-Columbian times to the present, this highly acclaimed survey examines Cuba's political and economic development within the context of its international relations and continuing struggle for self-determination. The dualism that emerged in Cuban ideology--between liberal constructs of patria and radical formulations of nationality--is fully investigated as a source of both national tension and competing notions of liberty, equality, and justice. Author Louis A. Pérez, Jr., integrates local and provincial developments with issues of class, race, and gender to give students a full and fascinating account of Cuba's history, focusing on its struggle for nationality.

Author : Louis A. Perez, Jr.,K. Lynn Stoner,Gladys Marel Garcia-Perez
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822971009

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Cuban Studies 36 by Louis A. Perez, Jr.,K. Lynn Stoner,Gladys Marel Garcia-Perez Pdf

Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field. This volume contains articles on economics, politics, racial and gender issues, and the exodus of Cuban Jewry in the early 1960s, among others.

Author : Gloria García Rodríguez
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807877678

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Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-Century Cuba by Gloria García Rodríguez Pdf

Putting the voices of the enslaved front and center, Gloria Garcia Rodriguez's study presents a compelling overview of African slavery in Cuba and its relationship to the plantation system that was the economic center of the New World. A major essay by Garcia, who has done decades of archival research on Cuban slavery, introduces the work, providing a history of the development, maintenance, and economy of the slave system in Cuba, which was abolished in 1886, later than in any country in the Americas except Brazil. The second part of the book features eighty previously unpublished primary documents selected by Garcia that vividly illustrate the experiences of Cuba's African slaves. This translation offers English-language readers a substantial look into the very rich, and much underutilized, material on slavery in Cuban archives and is especially suitable for teaching about the African diaspora, comparative slavery, and Cuban studies. Highlighting both the repressiveness of slavery and the legal and social spaces opened to slaves to challenge that repression, this collection reveals the rarely documented voices of slaves, as well as the social and cultural milieu in which they lived.

Author : Jason M. Yaremko
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813065939

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Indigenous Passages to Cuba, 1515-1900 by Jason M. Yaremko Pdf

“Portrays the vitality and dynamism of indigenous actors in what is arguably one of the most foundational and central zones in the making of modern world history: the Caribbean.”—Maximilian C. Forte, author of Ruins of Absence, Presence of Caribs “Brings together historical analysis and the compelling stories of individuals and families that labored in the island economies of the Caribbean.”—Cynthia Radding, coeditor of Borderlands in World History, 1700–1914 During the colonial period, thousands of North American native peoples traveled to Cuba independently as traders, diplomats, missionary candidates, immigrants, or refugees; others were forcibly transported as captives, slaves, indentured laborers, or prisoners of war. Over the half millennium after Spanish contact, Cuba also served as the principal destination and residence of peoples as diverse as the Yucatec Mayas of Mexico; the Calusa, Timucua, Creek, and Seminole peoples of Florida; and the Apache and Puebloan cultures of the northern provinces of New Spain. Many settled in pueblos or villages in Cuba that endured and evolved into the nineteenth century as urban centers, later populated by indigenous and immigrant Amerindian descendants and even their mestizo, or mixed-blood, progeny. In this first comprehensive history of the Amerindian diaspora in Cuba, Jason Yaremko presents the dynamics of indigenous movements and migrations from several regions of North America from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. In addition to detailing the various motives influencing aboriginal migratory processes, Yaremko uses these case studies to argue that Amerindians—whether voluntary or involuntary migrants—become diasporic through common experiences of dispossession, displacement, and alienation within Cuban colonial society. Yet, far from being merely passive victims acted upon, he argues that indigenous peoples were cognizant agents still capable of exercising power and influence to act in the interests of their communities. His narrative of their multifaceted and dynamic experiences of survival, adaptation, resistance, and negotiation within Cuban colonial society adds deeply to the history of transculturation in Cuba, and to our understanding of indigenous peoples, migration, and diaspora in the wider Caribbean world.

Author : Aisha K. Finch
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469622354

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Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba by Aisha K. Finch Pdf

Envisioning La Escalera--an underground rebel movement largely composed of Africans living on farms and plantations in rural western Cuba--in the larger context of the long emancipation struggle in Cuba, Aisha Finch demonstrates how organized slave resistance became critical to the unraveling not only of slavery but also of colonial systems of power during the nineteenth century. While the discovery of La Escalera unleashed a reign of terror by the Spanish colonial powers in which hundreds of enslaved people were tortured, tried, and executed, Finch revises historiographical conceptions of the movement as a fiction conveniently invented by the Spanish government in order to target anticolonial activities. Connecting the political agitation stirred up by free people of color in the urban centers to the slave rebellions that rocked the countryside, Finch shows how the rural plantation was connected to a much larger conspiratorial world outside the agrarian sector. While acknowledging the role of foreign abolitionists and white creoles in the broader history of emancipation, Finch teases apart the organization, leadership, and effectiveness of the black insurgents in midcentury dissident mobilizations that emerged across western Cuba, presenting compelling evidence that black women played a particularly critical role.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781452901749

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A Black Soldier's Story by Anonim Pdf

Author : Matt D. Childs
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807877418

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The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery by Matt D. Childs Pdf

In 1812 a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most important slave insurrections in Caribbean history. Matt Childs provides the first in-depth analysis of the rebellion, situating it in local, colonial, imperial, and Atlantic World contexts. Childs explains how slaves and free people of color responded to the nineteenth-century "sugar boom" in the Spanish colony by planning a rebellion against racial slavery and plantation agriculture. Striking alliances among free people of color and slaves, blacks and mulattoes, Africans and Creoles, and rural and urban populations, rebels were prompted to act by a widespread belief in rumors promising that emancipation was near. Taking further inspiration from the 1791 Haitian Revolution, rebels sought to destroy slavery in Cuba and perhaps even end Spanish rule. By comparing his findings to studies of slave insurrections in Brazil, Haiti, the British Caribbean, and the United States, Childs places the rebellion within the wider story of Atlantic World revolution and political change. The book also features a biographical table, constructed by Childs, of the more than 350 people investigated for their involvement in the rebellion, 34 of whom were executed.

Author : Manuel Barcia
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807143346

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The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825 by Manuel Barcia Pdf

In June 1825 the Cuban countryside witnessed a large African-led slave rebellion -- a revolt that began a cycle of slave uprisings lasting until the mid-1840s. The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825 examines this movement and its participants for the first time, highlighting the significance of African warriors in New World plantation society. Unlike previous slave revolts -- led by alliances between free people of color and slaves, blacks and mulattoes, Africans and Creoles, and rural and urban populations -- only African-born men organized the uprising of 1825. From this year onwards, Barcia argues, slave uprisings in Cuba underwent a phase of Africanization that concluded only in the mid-1840s with the conspiracy of La Escalera, a large movement organized by free colored men with ample participation of the slave population. The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825 offers a detailed examination of the sociopolitical and economic background of the Matanzas rebellion, both locally and colonially. Based on extensive primary sources, particularly court records, the study provides a microhistorical analysis of the days that preceded this event, the uprising itself, and the days and months that followed. Barcia gives the Great African Revolt of 1825 its rightful place in the history of slavery in Cuba, the Caribbean, and the Americas.

Author : Antoni Kapcia
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442264557

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Historical Dictionary of Cuba by Antoni Kapcia Pdf

This work is a completely new Historical Dictionary for Cuba (the first since 1988). It gives a comprehensive and detailed coverage and analysis of all of the key elements, factors, biographies, narratives, and treaties in Cuban history from the 1400s to the present day, with an emphasis on the decades after 1959. Historical Dictionary of Cuba, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1.000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Cuba.

Author : Louis A. Perez, Jr.
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822971207

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Cuban Studies 39 by Louis A. Perez, Jr. Pdf

Cuban Studies 39 includes essays on: the recent transformation of the Cuban film animation industry; the influence of the liberal agenda of Justo Rufino Barrios on Jose Mart; a profile of the music of the Special Period and its social commentary; an in-depth examination of the contents, important themes, and enormous research potential of the Miscelnea de Expedientes collection at the Cuban National Archive; and a realistic assessment on the political future of Cuba.