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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press
[2015]
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| Series: | Envisioning Cuba.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469622354_finch |
Table of Contents:
- 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.