Shade-grown slavery : the lives of slaves on coffee plantations in Cuba /

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This book explores the lives of enslaved Africans on Cuban coffee plantations and shows how they were able to maintain and transform their cultural traditions in spite of the harshness of slavery. -- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Van Norman, William C. (William Chisholm), 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, 2013
Subjects:
1700-1899
Enslaved persons > Cuba > Social conditions > 18th century.
Enslaved persons > Cuba > Social conditions > 19th century.
Black people > Cuba > Ethnic identity.
Slavery > Cuba > History.
Coffee plantations > Cuba > History.
Plantation life > Cuba > History.
Esclaves > Cuba > Conditions sociales > 18e siècle.
Esclaves > Cuba > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Vie dans les plantations > Cuba > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > Cuba.
Black people > Ethnic identity.
Coffee plantations.
Plantation life.
Slavery.
Enslaved persons > Social conditions.
Kaffeeplantage
Kulturelle Identität
Sklaverei
Cuba.
Kuba
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the crop mattered
  • Roots : the expansion of coffee and the slave population. Café con azúcar : the expansion of the slave population and plantations ; Transformations : building frameworks and structures
  • Branches : the negotiations of life on the cafetal. Space is the place : intentions and subversions of design ; Under the cover of night : religious practices ; Buyers and sellers : work and economy of the slaves ; When everyday actions escalate : resistance, rebellions, and cultural complexity
  • Harvest. Conclusion : performing culture and the appropriation of identifications
  • Appendix A : Demographic Data
  • Appendix B. Cafetales.

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