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Shade grown slavery : the lives of slaves on coffee plantations in Cuba
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"Explores the lives of enslaved Africans on Cuban coffee plantations and shows how they were able to maintain and transform their cultural traditions in spite of the harshness of slavery"--Provided...
"Explores the lives of enslaved Africans on Cuban coffee plantations and shows how they were able to maintain and transform their cultural traditions in spite of the harshness of slavery"--Provided by publisher.
Details
- Creator
- William C. Van Norman, Jr
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2013]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780826519160, 0826519164, 1299634176, 9781299634176, 9780826519146, 0826519148, 9780826519153, 0826519156, 9780826519146
- OCLC
- ocn847527331
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The crop mattered -- Café con azúcar : the expansion of the slave population and plantations -- Transformations : building frameworks and structures -- Space is the place : intentions and subversions of design -- Under the cover of night : religious practices -- Buyers and sellers : work and economy of the slaves -- When everyday actions escalate : resistance, rebellions, and cultural complexity -- Performing culture and the appropriation of identifications