The year of the lash : free people of color in Cuba and the nineteenth-century Atlantic world / Michele Reid-Vazquez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reid-Vazquez, Michele.

Series:

Early American places.

Early American places

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Cuba--History--19th century.

Black people.

Social conflict--Cuba--History--19th century.

Social conflict.

Black people--Atlantic Ocean Region--History--19th century.

Cuba--History--Negro Conspiracy, 1844.

Cuba.

Cuba--History--Negro Conspiracy, 1844--Influence.

Cuba--Race relations--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The untold story of the strategies of negotia­tion used by free blacks in the aftermath of the "Year of the Lash"--a wave of repression in Cuba that had great implications for the Atlantic World in the next two decades. Reid-Vazquez shows how free people of color challenged colonial policies of terror and pursued justice on their own terms.

Contents:

"Very prejudicial" : free people of color in a slave society

Spectacles of power : repressing the conspiracy of La Escalera

Calculated expulsions : free people of color in Mexico, the U.S., Spain, and North Africa

Acts of excess and insubordination : resisting the tranquility of terror

The rise and fall of the militia of color : from the constitution of 1812 to the Escalera era

Balancing acts : the shifting dynamics of race and immigration.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613375070

9781283375078

1283375079

9780820341804

0820341800

OCLC:

772235659