La Rosa Corzo, Gabino.
Runaway slave settlements in Cuba : resistance and repression / Gabino La Rosa Corzo ; translated by Mary Todd. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003. - ix, 292 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. - Envisioning Cuba .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-279) and index.
Slave resistance in Eastern Cuba : the first few centuries of colonial rule -- El Portillo --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 attacks 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.
0807828033 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807854794 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Slavery--History.--Cuba--Holguin (Province)
Fugitive slaves--History.--Cuba--Holguin (Province)
Government, Resistance to--History.--Cuba--Holguin (Province)
Holguin (Cuba : Province)--History.
F1845 / .L3713 2003
973.91/64
Runaway slave settlements in Cuba : resistance and repression / Gabino La Rosa Corzo ; translated by Mary Todd. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003. - ix, 292 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. - Envisioning Cuba .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-279) and index.
Slave resistance in Eastern Cuba : the first few centuries of colonial rule -- El Portillo --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 attacks 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.
0807828033 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807854794 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Slavery--History.--Cuba--Holguin (Province)
Fugitive slaves--History.--Cuba--Holguin (Province)
Government, Resistance to--History.--Cuba--Holguin (Province)
Holguin (Cuba : Province)--History.
F1845 / .L3713 2003
973.91/64