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Author Childs, Matt D., 1970-

Title The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the struggle against Atlantic slavery [electronic resource] / Matt D. Childs.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xi, 300 p. : ill.
Series Envisioning Cuba
Envisioning Cuba.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-287) and index.
Contents Introduction: worse than Aponte -- The present time period is very delicate: Cuban slavery and the changing Atlantic world, 1750-1850 -- Nothing worse in the world than to be a slave: slaves and free people of color in early nineteenth-century Cuba -- Organizing the rebellion: the overlapping worlds of the militia and the Cabildos de Nacion -- Burn the plantations: the Cuban Aponte Rebellion(s) of 1812 -- Vanquish the arrogance of our enemies: emancipation rumors and rebellious royalism -- Conclusion: plaques of loyalty: the legacy of the Aponte Rebellion -- Appendix: Biographical database of the Aponte rebels.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Slavery -- Cuba.
Slave insurrections -- Cuba.
Slavery -- America -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title Eighteen-twelve Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the struggle against Atlantic slavery
ISBN 0807830585 (alk. paper)
9780807830581 (alk. paper)
0807857726 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807857724 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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