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The year of the lash free people of color in Cuba and the nineteenth-century Atlantic world / by Reid-Vazquez, Michele

Table of Contents: “…"Very prejudicial" : free people of color in a slave society -- Spectacles of power : repressing the conspiracy of La Escalera -- Calculated expulsions : free people of color in Mexico, the U.S., Spain, and North Africa -- Acts of excess and insubordination : resisting the tranquility of terror -- The rise and fall of the militia of color : from the constitution of 1812 to the Escalera era -- Balancing acts : the shifting dynamics of race and immigration.…”
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The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the struggle against Atlantic slavery by Childs, Matt D., 1970-

Table of 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 Nación -- 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.…”
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