The year of the lash
Subtitle: free people of color in Cuba and the nineteenth-century Atlantic world
By: Michele Reid-Vazquez
Series: Early American places; Early American places
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780820335759; 9780820340685
Subjects: Race relations; Influence; Blacks; Social conflict; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Very prejudicial" : free people of color in a slave society; title: Spectacles of power : repressing the conspiracy of La Escalera; title: Calculated expulsions : free people of color in Mexico, the U.S., Spain, and North Africa; title: Acts of excess and insubordination : resisting the tranquility of terror; title: The rise and fall of the militia of color : from the constitution of 1812 to the Escalera era; title: Balancing acts : the shifting dynamics of race and immigration.