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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457816303321

Autore

Reid-Vazquez Michele

Titolo

The year of the lash [[electronic resource] ] : free people of color in Cuba and the nineteenth-century Atlantic world / / Michele Reid-Vazquez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-37507-9

9786613375070

0-8203-4180-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

Early American places

Disciplina

972.91/05

Soggetti

Black people - Cuba - History - 19th century

Social conflict - Cuba - History - 19th century

Black people - Atlantic Ocean Region - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Cuba History Negro Conspiracy, 1844

Cuba History Negro Conspiracy, 1844 Influence

Cuba Race relations History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Very prejudicial" : free people of color in a slave society -- Spectacles of power : repressing the conspiracy of La Escalera -- Calculated expulsions : free people of color in Mexico, the U.S., Spain, and North Africa -- Acts of excess and insubordination : resisting the tranquility of terror -- The rise and fall of the militia of color : from the constitution of 1812 to the Escalera era -- Balancing acts : the shifting dynamics of race and immigration.