Rethinking slave rebellion in Cuba : La Escalera and the insurgencies of 1841-1844 /

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 organised slave resistance became critical to the unraveling not...

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Hlavní autor: Finch, Aisha K. (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press [2015]
Edice:Envisioning Cuba.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469622354_finch
Obsah:
  • Africans in colonial Cuba
  • Rural slave networks and insurgent geographies
  • The 1843 rebellions in Matanzas
  • To raise a rebellion in Matanzas: the urban connection, 1841-1843
  • And the women also knew: the gendered terrain of insurgency
  • The anatomy of a rural movement
  • African Cuban sacred traditions and the making of an insurgency.