Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba : La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844 /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Finch, Aisha K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Slavery.
Slave insurrections.
Race relations.
Black people > Social conditions.
Africans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Personnes noires > Cuba > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
Africains > Cuba > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Revoltes d'esclaves > Cuba > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Africans > Cuba > History > 19th century.
Black people > Cuba > Social conditions > 19th century.
Slavery > Cuba > History > 19th century.
Slave insurrections > Cuba > History > 19th century.
Cuba.
Cuba > Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Cuba > Histoire > 1844 (Conspiration des noirs)
Cuba > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Cuba > History > Negro Conspiracy, 1844.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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