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Runaway slave settlements in Cuba : resistance and repression
Palenques del oriente de Cuba. English
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- Creator
- Gabino La Rosa Corzo ; translated by Mary Todd
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
- ©2003
- Series
- Physical Details
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- ix, 292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0807828033, 0807854794, 9780807854792, 9780807828038, 9780807861738, 0807861731
- OCLC
- ocm51810596, ocm56356665
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-279) and index.
- The attack on El Portillo ; The captured runaways ; A settling of accounts ; Decades of economic development -- Active resistance in the eastern region, 1790-1820 ; Runaway slave settlements east of Santiago de Cuba ; Runaway slave settlements in the northern mountain ranges -- Eastern palenques in the period of slave plantation expansion ; Runaway slave settlements in the Mayarí Mountains ; Tightening of the eastern repressive system ; Consolidation of resistance and repression -- Expansion and decline ; Last large-scale attack on the eastern palenques ; Last of the runaways living in settlements -- Runaway slave settlements as a system of resistance ; Specific characteristics of the eastern settlements ; Forms of settlement ; Types of dwellings in runaway slave settlements ; Adaptability of the repressive system