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Author La Rosa Corzo, Gabino.

Uniform Title Palenques del oriente de Cuba. English
Title Runaway slave settlements in Cuba [electronic resource] : resistance and repression / Gabino La Rosa Corzo ; translated by Mary Todd.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description ix, 292 p. : ill., maps.
Series Envisioning Cuba
Envisioning Cuba.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-279) and index.
Contents 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 Mayari 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Slavery -- Cuba -- Holguin (Province) -- History.
Fugitive slaves -- Cuba -- Holguin (Province) -- History.
Government, Resistance to -- Cuba -- Holguin (Province) -- History.
Holguin (Cuba : Province) -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0807861731
0807828033 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807854794 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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