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The 1843 Rebellions in Matanzas
2015This chapter argues that the insurgent designs of 1844 grew out of a longer insurrectionary tradition in the rural plantation countryside. While slaves in rural Matanzas had unleashed destructive rebellions for close to two decades, the greatest concentration of these rebellions took place in the 1840s, culminating in the two slave insurrections of ...
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To Raise a Rebellion in Matanzas
2015This chapter takes a step back from these rural mobilizations to examine the organization unfolding in the urban centers of Matanzas, and to a lesser extent, Havana. During the early 1840s these urban centers became a crucible for scores of dissident men—rural and urban slaves, free men of color, and white creole patriots—hoping to organize against ...
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Abstract Many of the most gripping scenes in the first-person account of life under slavery by the 19th-century Cuban poet Juan Francisco Manzano reference pleasures and punishments involving the exercise of the emotions.
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