Voices of the enslaved in nineteenth-century Cuba: a documentary history
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Main Author: García Rodríguez, Gloria (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ©2011
Series:Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
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Item Description:Originally published: México : Centro de Investigacíon Científica "Ing. Jorge L Tamayo," 1996
Includes bibliographical references and index
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 -- Slaveholders and the slave code : statement from Havana's ingenio owners to the king : Havana, January 19, 1790 -- Toward a new slave code -- Slavery and family life -- The plantation social network -- Solidarity in the face of injustice -- The labor relations of Coartado slaves
First published in 1996 by the Mexican publisher Centro de Investigacion Cientifica, this documentary history provides a vivid overview of African slavery in Cuba (which wasn't abolished until 1886, later than any country save Brazil) and its relationship to the plantation system of the New World. The book is comprised of two parts; the first is a rich introductory essay by the author, and the second is a collection of eighty previously unpublished primary documents from various Cuban archives that shed light on the lived experiences of Cuba's African slaves. The volume is significant in three
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 220 pages)
ISBN:0807832189
080787194X
0807877670
1469602660
9780807832189
9780807871942
9780807877678
9781469602660

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