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Author : Gloria García Rodríguez
Release : 2011
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-century Cuba by : Gloria García Rodríguez
Download or read book Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-century Cuba written by Gloria García Rodríguez. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Mexico: Centro de Investigacion Cientifica "Ing. Jorge L Tamayo," 1996.
Author : Sarah L. Franklin
Release : 2012
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Women and Slavery in Nineteenth-century Colonial Cuba by : Sarah L. Franklin
Download or read book Women and Slavery in Nineteenth-century Colonial Cuba written by Sarah L. Franklin. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates how patriarchy operated in the lives of the women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves Scholars have long recognized the importance of gender and hierarchy in the slave societies of the New World, yet gendered analysis of Cuba has lagged behind study of other regions. Cuban elites recognized that creating and maintaining the Cuban slave society required a rigid social hierarchy based on race, gender, and legal status. Given the dramatic changes that came to Cuba in the wake of the Haitian Revolution and the growth of the enslaved population, the maintenance of order required a patriarchy that placed both women and slaves among the lower ranks. Based on a variety of archival and printed primary sources, this book examines how patriarchy functioned outside the confines of the family unit by scrutinizing the foundation on which nineteenth-century Cuban patriarchy rested. This book investigates how patriarchy operated in the lives of the women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves. Through chapters on motherhood, marriage, education, public charity, and the sale of slaves, insight is gained into the role of patriarchy both as a guiding ideology and lived history in the Caribbean's longest lasting slave society. Sarah L. Franklin is assistant professor of history at the University of North Alabama.
Author : Daylet Domínguez
Release : 2023-09-06
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Synopsis Slavery, Mobility, and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Cuba by : Daylet Domínguez
Download or read book Slavery, Mobility, and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Cuba written by Daylet Domínguez. This book was released on 2023-09-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a focus on nineteenth century Cuba, this volume examines understudied forms of mobility and networks that emerged during Second Slavery. After being forcibly taken across the Atlantic, enslaved Africans were moved within Cuba, and sometimes sold to owners in other Caribbean islands or the U.S. South. The chapters included in this book, written by historians and literary critics, pay special attention to debates between abolitionists and proslavery ideologues, the ways in which people and ideas moved from the countryside to the city, from one Caribbean Island to the next, and from the United States or the coasts of West Africa to the sugarcane fields. They examine how enslaved persons ran away or were captured and coerced to relocate; how they mobilized information and ideas to ameliorate their situation; and how they were used to advance other people’s interests. Movement, these chapters show, was regularly deployed to reinforce enslavement and the suppression of rights, while at times helping people in their struggle for freedom. This book will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Latin American Literature, Global Slavery and Postcolonial Studies. The chapters were originally published in the journal Atlantic Studies: Global Currents.
Author : Franklin W. Knight
Release : 1970
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century by : Franklin W. Knight
Download or read book Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century written by Franklin W. Knight. This book was released on 1970. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Manuel Barcia
Release : 2008-12-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Seeds of Insurrection by : Manuel Barcia
Download or read book Seeds of Insurrection written by Manuel Barcia. This book was released on 2008-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a late September day in 1837, shortly after sunset, a group of six slaves marched into the small Cuban village of Güira de Melena, beating African drums and singing loudly. Alarmed, villagers rushed into the streets with machetes, sabers, and spears, ready to take action against the disobedient slaves. Yet this makeshift parade never evolved into the violent rebellion the villagers expected. Though the slaves who lived on Cuban coffee and sugar plantations sometimes defied their captors by orchestrating fierce uprisings and committing murder and suicide, they also resisted in less overt ways -- by running away, feigning sickness, breaking tools, and by maintaining their own cultures. In Seeds of Insurrection, Manuel Barcia examines many largely overlooked ways in which African and Creole slaves in Cuba defied domination in the first half of the nineteenth century. Ethnic and geographic origins, as well as slaves' personal experiences, affected their resistance to bondage. Dividing resistance into two broad types -- violent and nonviolent -- Barcia examines when and why the slaves chose certain forms. Creole slaves grew up in Cuba, for example, so they learned both the language of their ancestors and Spanish, and they came to understand their Spanish masters as few African-born slaves ever could. Consequently, they cleverly used the few rights colonial laws offered them to their advantage. African-born slaves, by contrast, carried with them their memories from home, their religious beliefs, jokes, and songs, and they dealt with enslavement by incorporating this cultural heritage into their everyday activities. Barcia demonstrates the ways in which the slaves made use of the privacy of their huts and barracks and the lack of surveillance in the fields to voice their ideas and opinions -- through song, religion, gossip, folktales, and jokes -- within an acceptable degree of safety. Relying primarily on transcripts of local and central court proceedings involving slaves, free people of color, slave owners, and witnesses, Barcia reveals the slaves' view of their world. He also explores the forms of domination practiced by colonial authorities, plantation masters, and overseers, gleaning insight from innovative sources, including medical reports and diaries of rancheadores, as well as public and private correspondence, newspapers, and the contributions of contemporary scholars. In Seeds of Insurrection, Barcia expands the definition of resistance and adds an invaluable dimension to the understanding of slavery in the Americas.
