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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140291503321

Autore

Sartorius David A

Titolo

Ever faithful : race, loyalty, and the ends of empire in Spanish Cuba / / David Sartorius

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-8223-5593-0

0-8223-7707-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

305.80097291

Soggetti

Black people - Race identity - Cuba - History - 19th century

Cuba Race relations History 19th century

Spain Colonies America Administration History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Belonging to an empire : race and rights -- Suspicious affinities : loyal subjectivity and the paternalist public -- The will to freedom : Spanish allegiances in the Ten Years' War -- Publicizing loyalty : race and the post-Zanjón public sphere -- "Long live Spain! death to autonomy!" Liberalism and slave emancipation -- The price of integrity : limited loyalties in revolution -- Subject citizens and the tragedy of loyalty.

Sommario/riassunto

Challenging assumptions that loyalty to the Spanish empire was the exclusive province of the white Cuban elite, this groundbreaking history brings attention to free and enslaved people of African descent who actively supported colonialism.