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Author García Rodríguez, Gloria.

Title Voices of the enslaved in nineteenth-century Cuba : a documentary history / Gloria García Rodríguez ; translated by Nancy L. Westrate ; foreword by Ada Ferrer.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 220 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
Note Originally published: México : Centro de Investigacíon Científica "Ing. Jorge L Tamayo," 1996.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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of two parts; the first is a rich introductory essay by the author, and the second is a collection of eighty previously unpublished primary documents from various Cuban archives that shed light on the lived experiences of Cuba's African slaves.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.
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Subject Slavery -- Cuba -- History -- Sources.
Slavery.
Cuba.
History.
Slavery -- Cuba.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Sources.
Electronic books -- History -- Sources.
History.
Electronic books -- History -- Sources.
Added Title Esclavitud desde la esclavitud. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2011012495
Other Form: Print version: García Rodríguez, Gloria. Esclavitud desde la esclavitud. English. Voices of the enslaved in nineteenth-century Cuba. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011 9780807832189 (DLC) 2011005515 (OCoLC)668197704
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