Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: A Documentary History
Gloria Garcia Rodriguez
Abstract
Putting the voices of the enslaved front and center, this study presents an overview of African slavery in Cuba and its relationship to the plantation system that was the economic center of the New World. A major essay introduces the work, providing a history of the development, maintenance, and economy of the slave system in Cuba, which was abolished in 1886, later than in any country in the Americas except Brazil. The second part of the book features eighty previously unpublished primary documents that vividly illustrate the experiences of Cuba's African slaves. This translation offers a loo ... More
Keywords: African slavery, Cuba, New World, Cuban slavery, slave system, repression, slaves
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9780807832189 |
| Published to North Carolina Scholarship Online: July 2014 | DOI:10.5149/9780807877678_garcia_rodriguez |
