1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle Against Atlantic Slavery

Name: 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle Against Atlantic Slavery
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ISBN: 9780807857724

ISBN-10: 0807857726

ISBN-13: 9780807857724

Edition: 2006

Authors: Matt D. Childs

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In 1812 a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most important slave insurrections in Caribbean history. Matt Childs provides the first in-depth analysis of the rebellion, situating it in local, colonial, imperial, and Atlantic World contexts. Childs explains how slaves and free people of color responded to the nineteenth-century "sugar boom" in the Spanish colony by planning a rebellion against racial slavery and plantation agriculture. Striking alliances among free people of color and slaves, blacks and mulattoes, Africans and Creoles, and rural and urban populations, rebels were prompted to act by…

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List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 11/27/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Acknowledgments


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



Biographical Database of the Aponte Rebels


Notes


Bibliography


Index