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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Gabino La Rosa Corzo; Mary Todd |
ISBN: | 0807854794 9780807854792 0807828033 9780807828038 |
OCLC Number: | 908376701 |
Description: | ix, 292 pages : illustrations, cartes ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | Slave resistance in Eastern Cuba: The first few centuries of colonial rule. El Portillo ; The attack on El Portillo ; The captured runaways ; A settling of accounts ; Decades of economic development -- Active resistance in the Eastern region, 1790-1820. Runaway slave settlements East of Santiago de Cuba ; Runaway slave settlements in the Northern mountain ranges -- Eastern palenques in the period of slave plantation expansion. Runaway slave settlements in the Mayarí mountains ; Tightening of the Eastern repressive system ; Consolidation of resistance and repression -- Expansion and decline. Last large-scale attack on the Eastern palenques ; Last of the runaways living in settlements -- Runaway slave settlements as a system of resistance. Specific characteristics of the eastern settlements ; Forms of settlement ; Types of dwellings in runaway slave settlements ; Adaptability of the repressive system. |
Series Title: | Envisioning Cuba |
Other Titles: | Palenques del oriente de Cuba. |
Responsibility: | Gabino La Rosa Corzo ; translated by Mary Todd. |
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