Runaway Slave Settlements in Cuba: Resistance and Repression

by Gabino La Rosa Corzo

Book Overview

Combining archaeological and historical methods, Gabino La Rosa Corzo provides the most detailed and accurate available account of the runaway slave settlements (palenques) that formed in the inaccessible mountain chains of eastern Cuba from 1737 to 1850, decades before the end of slavery on the island. The traces that remain of these communities provide important clues to historical processes such as slave resistance and emancipation, anticolonial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807854794
• ISBN13: 9780807854792
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.4"