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.