ISBN:
9780807877678
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (241 pages)
Series Statement:
Latin America in Translation/en Traduccion/em Traducao
Series Statement:
Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.3/62097291
Keywords:
Slavery -- Cuba -- History -- Sources
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Slavery -- Cuba
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Slavery ; Cuba ; History ; Sources
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Slavery ; Cuba
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Electronic books
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Online-Publikation
Abstract:
Putting the voices of the enslaved front and center, Gloria Garcia Rodriguez's study presents a compelling 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 by Garcia, who has done decades of archival research on Cuban slavery, 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 The second part of the book features eighty previously unpublished primary documents selected by Garcia that vividly illustrate the experiences of Cuba's African slaves. This translation offers English-language readers a substantial look into the very rich, and much underutilized, material on slavery in Cuban archives and is especially suitable for teaching about the African diaspora, comparative slavery, and Cuban studies. Highlighting both the repressiveness of slavery and the legal and social spaces opened to slaves to challenge that repression, this collection reveals the rarely documented voices of slaves, as well as the social and cultural milieu in which they lived.
Abstract:
Cover -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE -- Introduction -- The Growing Hegemony of the Plantation -- Slaves and More Slaves -- The Sociodemographic Imapact of the Plantation -- The Plantation Community -- The Informal Structure of Plantation Life -- Family and Kinship -- Plantations and Commerce -- Slaves in the City -- Slave Rebellions -- 1. Slavery and Its Legal Regulation: The Slave Code -- Royal decree and instructional circular for the Indies on the education, treatment, and work regimen of slaves. May 31, 1789. -- 2. Slaveholders and the Slave Code -- Statement from Havana's ingenio owners to the king. Havana, January 19, 1790. -- 3. Toward a New Slave Code -- 3.1. Survey by Captain General Gerónimo Valdés. Havana, February 23, 1842. -- 3.2. The hacendado Jacinto González Larrinaga explains his methods. San Antonio de los Baños, April 14, 1842. -- 3.3. Excerpts from the slave code. November 14, 1842. -- 4. Slavery and Family Life -- 4.1. Excerpts from the proceedings against Ildefonso Carabalí, slave owned by Don Diego Francisco de Unzaga, for attempted suicide. Havana, September 11, 1807. -- 4.2. The tragic fate of Rita Gangá: Excerpts from the case against Juan Gualberto Toledo for theft of the slave woman. Remedios, June 25, 1835. -- 4.3. Carlota Moreno, morena, brings suit against her sister. Havana, March 8, 1836. -- 4.4. José Agustín Cepero petitions for the freedom of his daughter Juana. Havana, July 12, 1836. -- 4.5. Petition filed by María de los Dolores Frías, native of Africa and resident of Barrio de Guadalupe, requesting that her daughter be allowed to change masters. Havana, September 11, 1837. -- 4.6. Official request by the freedman Romualdo García to free his wife. Havana, October 17, 1837. -- 4.7. Official request by Juan Pablo Sobrado seeking authorization to redeem an unborn child. Havana, April 7, 1853.
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