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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