Runaway slave settlements in Cuba
Subtitle: resistance and repression
By: Gabino La Rosa Corzo ; translated by Mary Todd.
Series: Envisioning Cuba
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Slavery -- Cuba -- Holguín (Province) -- History; Fugitive slaves -- Cuba -- Holguín (Province) -- History; Government, Resistance to -- Cuba -- Holguín (Province) -- History; Holguín (Cuba : Province) -- History
Work titles: Palenques del oriente de Cuba.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-279) and index.
Table of contents: title: The attack on El Portillo ; The captured runaways ; A settling of accounts ; Decades of economic development; title: Active resistance in the eastern region, 1790-1820 ; Runaway slave settlements east of Santiago de Cuba ; Runaway slave settlements in the northern mountain ranges; title: 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; title: Expansion and decline ; Last large-scale attack on the eastern palenques ; Last of the runaways living in settlements; title: 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.