The Year of the Lash: Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

by Michele Reid-Vazquez

Book Overview

Michele Reid-Vazquez reveals the untold story of the strategies of negotia­tion used by free blacks in the aftermath of the "Year of the Lash"--a wave of repression in Cuba that had great implications for the Atlantic World in the next two decades.

At dawn on June 29, 1844, a firing squad in Havana executed ten accused ringleaders of the Conspiracy of La Escalera, an alleged plot to abolish slavery and colonial rule in Cuba. The condemned...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820340685
• ISBN13: 9780820340685
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"