Rethinking slave rebellion in Cuba : La Escalera and the insurgencies of 1841-1844

Africans Blacks Slave insurrections Slavery Race relations Cuba e-böcker History
The University of North Carolina Press
2015
EISBN 9781469622354
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.
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.
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.
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.
