Screen LibraryRethinking 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 organized slave resistance became critical to the unraveling...
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The University of North Carolina Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Chapel Hill : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Envisioning Cuba
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| Summary: |
"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 organized slave resistance became critical to the unraveling not only of slavery but also of colonial systems of power during the nineteenth century. While the discovery of La Escalera unleashed a reign of terror by the Spanish colonial powers in which hundreds of enslaved people were tortured, tried, and executed, Finch revises historiographical conceptions of |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 298 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-287) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781469622347 1469622343 1469622351 9781469622354 |
| Index Number: | F1783 |
| CLC: | K751.3 |
| Call Number: | K751.3/F492 |
| Contents: | Africans in colonial Matanzas -- 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. |