Runaway slave settlements in Cuba : resistance and repression / / Gabino La Rosa Corzo ; translated by Mary Todd.

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Superior document:Envisioning Cuba
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TeilnehmendeR:
Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
Series:Envisioning Cuba.
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Physical Description:ix, 292 p. :; ill., maps.
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Table of 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.