Voices of the enslaved in nineteenth-century Cuba [[electronic resource] ] : a documentary history / / Gloria García Rodríguez ; translated by Nancy L. Westrate ; foreword by Ada Ferrer
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García Rodríguez Gloria
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Voices of the enslaved in nineteenth-century Cuba [[electronic resource] ] : a documentary history / / Gloria García Rodríguez ; translated by Nancy L. Westrate ; foreword by Ada Ferrer
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, N.C., : University of North Carolina Press, c2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.3/62097291 |
| Soggetto topico: | Slavery - Cuba - History |
| Slavery - Cuba | |
| Altri autori: |
WestrateNancy L
FerrerAda
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| Note generali: | Originally published: México : Centro de Investigacíon Científica "Ing. Jorge L Tamayo," 1996. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Putting the voices of the enslaved front and center, Gloria Garcia Rodriguez's study presents a compelling overview of African slavery in Cuba and its relationship to the plantation system that was the economic center of the New World. A major essay by Garcia, who has done decades of archival research on Cuban slavery, introduces the work, providing a history of the development, maintenance, and economy of the slave system in Cuba, which was abolished in 1886, later than in any country in the Americas except Brazil. The second part of the book features eighty previously unpublished primary doc |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Voices of the enslaved in nineteenth-century Cuba |
| ISBN: | 1-4696-0266-0 |
| 0-8078-7767-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910778829203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.