Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Slave resistance in Eastern Cuba : the first few centuries of colonial rule
  • El Portillo
  • The attack on El Portillo
  • The captured runaways
  • A settling of accounts
  • Decades of economic development
  • Active resistance in the eastern region, 1790-1820
  • Runaway slave settlements east of Santiago de Cuba
  • Runaway slave settlements in the northern mountain ranges
  • Eastern palenques in the period of slave plantation expansion
  • Runaway slave settlements in the Mayarí Mountains
  • Tightening of the eastern repressive system
  • Consolidation of resistance and repression
  • Expansion and decline
  • Last large-scale attacks on the eastern palenques
  • Last of the runaways living in settlements
  • Runaway slave settlements as a system of resistance
  • Specific characteristics of the eastern settlements
  • Forms of settlement
  • Types of dwellings in runaway slave settlements
  • Adaptability of the repressive system.