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The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle Against Atlantic Slavery (Envisioning Cuba), by
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- Brief Synopsis:
- 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.
- Long Synopsis:
- 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 a widespread belief in rumors promising that emancipation was near. Taking further inspiration from the 1791 Haitian Revolution, rebels sought to destroy slavery in Cuba and perhaps even end Spanish rule. By comparing his findings to studies of slave insurrections in Brazil, Haiti, the British Caribbean, and the United States, Childs places the rebellion within the wider story of Atlantic World revolution and political change.
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 280 Pages
- ISBN-10:
- 0807830585
- ISBN-13:
- 9780807830581
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 12/12/07
- Copyright Date:
- 2006
- Copyrighted By:
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Textbooks and Educational Materials, History, Nonfiction
- Submitted By:
- Allison Hilliker
- Proofread By:
- Allison Hilliker
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