Reid-Vazquez, Michele.

The year of the lash free people of color in Cuba and the nineteenth-century Atlantic world / [electronic resource] : Michele Reid-Vazquez. - Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2011. - xiii, 251 p. : ill. - Early American places . - Early American places. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Very prejudicial" : free people of color in a slave society -- Spectacles of power : repressing the conspiracy of La Escalera -- Calculated expulsions : free people of color in Mexico, the U.S., Spain, and North Africa -- Acts of excess and insubordination : resisting the tranquility of terror -- The rise and fall of the militia of color : from the constitution of 1812 to the Escalera era -- Balancing acts : the shifting dynamics of race and immigration.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780820341804 (electronic bk.)




Blacks--History--Cuba--19th century.
Social conflict--History--Cuba--19th century.
Blacks--History--Atlantic Ocean Region--19th century.


Cuba--History--Negro Conspiracy, 1844.
Cuba--History--Influence.--Negro Conspiracy, 1844
Cuba--Race relations--History--19th century.


Electronic books.

F1783 / .R35 2011

972.91/05