Runaway Slave Settlements in Cuba: Resistance and Repression

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UNC Press Books, 2003 - 292 páginas
Combining archaeological and historical methods, Gabino La Rosa Corzo provides the most detailed and accurate available account of the runaway slave settlements (palenques) that formed in the inaccessible mountain chains of eastern Cuba from 1737 t
 

Contenido

Slave Resistance in Eastern Cuba The First Few Centuries of Colonial Rule
35
El Portillo
43
The Attack on El Portillo
45
The Captured Runaways
49
A Settling of Accounts
62
Decades of Economic Development
66
Active Resistance in the Eastern Region 17901820
79
Runaway Slave Settlements East of Santiago de Cuba
99
Last LargeScale Attacks on the Eastern Palenques
178
Last of the Runaways Living in Settlements
207
Runaway Slave Settlements as a System of Resistance
223
Specific Characteristics of the Eastern Settlements
231
Forms of Settlement
235
Types of Dwellings in Runaway Slave Settlements
243
Adaptability of the Repressive System
250
Appendixes
255

Runaway Slave Settlements in the Northern Mountain Ranges
104
Eastern Palenques in the Period of Slave Plantation Expansion
117
Runaway Slave Settlements in the Mayari Mountains
120
Tightening of the Eastern Repressive System
129
Consolidation of Resistance and Repression
140
Expansion and Decline
169
Glossary
261
Notes
265
References
275
Index
281
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Acerca del autor (2003)

Gabino La Rosa Corzo is a researcher at the Center for Anthropological Study at the University of Havana. Translator Mary Todd lives in Havana.

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