Childs, Matt D., 1970-

The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the struggle against Atlantic slavery [electronic resource] / Eighteen-twelve Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the struggle against Atlantic slavery Matt D. Childs. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006. - xi, 300 p. : ill. - Envisioning Cuba . - Envisioning Cuba. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-287) and index.

Introduction: worse than Aponte -- The present time period is very delicate: Cuban slavery and the changing Atlantic world, 1750-1850 -- Nothing worse in the world than to be a slave: slaves and free people of color in early nineteenth-century Cuba -- Organizing the rebellion: the overlapping worlds of the militia and the Cabildos de Nación -- Burn the plantations: the Cuban Aponte Rebellion(s) of 1812 -- Vanquish the arrogance of our enemies: emancipation rumors and rebellious royalism -- Conclusion: plaques of loyalty: the legacy of the Aponte Rebellion -- Appendix: Biographical database of the Aponte rebels.


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Slavery--Cuba.
Slave insurrections--Cuba.
Slavery--History.--America


Electronic books.

HT1076 / .C55 2006eb

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