1st Edition

Slavery, Mobility, and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

Edited By Daylet Domínguez, Victor Goldgel Carballo Copyright 2024
140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

With a focus on nineteenth century Cuba, this volume examines understudied forms of mobility and networks that emerged during Second Slavery. After being forcibly taken across the Atlantic, enslaved Africans were moved within Cuba, and sometimes sold to owners in other Caribbean islands or the U.S. South. The chapters included in this book, written by historians and literary critics, pay special... Read more

Introduction

Daylet Domínguez and Víctor Goldgel Carballo

1. Teresa Mina’s journeys: "Slave-moving," mobility, and gender in mid-nineteenth-century Cuba

Camillia Cowling

2. Forty-one years a slave: Agnosia and mobility in nineteenth-century Cuba

Victor Goldgel Carballo

3. Slaveholders in the South: The networks of Cubans and Southerners in the age of the second slavery

Daylet Domínguez

4. Traveling tropes: Race, reconstruction, and "Southern" redemption in The Story of Evangelina Cisneros

Thomas Genova

5. The journey of Víctor Lucumí Chappotín from Saint-Domingue to Cuba: Slavery, autonomy, and property, 1797–1841

Aisnara Perera Díaz and María de los Ángeles Meriño Fuentes

6. Getting locked up to get free in colonial Cuba

Rachel Price

Biography

Daylet Domínguez, (PhD Princeton University), is Associate Professor in the Spanish and Portuguese Department of University California, Berkeley, USA.

Víctor Goldgel Carballo, (PhD University of California, Berkeley), is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.