The Year of the Lash Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World |
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| Author:
| Reid-Vazquez, Michele |
| Series title: | Early American Places Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8203-4068-5 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2011 |
| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $26.95 |
Book Description:
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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. Reid-Vazquez shows how free people of color challenged colonial policies of terror and pursued justice on their own terms.
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. Reid-Vazquez shows how free people of color challenged colonial policies of terror and pursued justice on their own terms.