Rethinking slave rebellion in Cuba : La Escalera and the insurgencies of 1841-1844 / Aisha K. Finch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finch, Aisha K.

Series:

Envisioning Cuba.

Envisioning Cuba

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africans--Cuba--History--19th century.

Africans.

Black people--Cuba--Social conditions--19th century.

Black people.

Slavery--Cuba--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Slave rebellions--Cuba--History--19th century.

Slave rebellions.

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

Cuba.

Cuba--History--Negro Conspiracy, 1844.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]

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 organised slave resistance became critical to the unraveling not only of slavery but also of colonial systems of power during the nineteenth century.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908458-7-0

1-4696-2236-X

OCLC:

914027968