1st Edition

Social Struggle and Civil Society in Nineteenth Century Cuba

Edited By Richard E. Morris Copyright 2023
186 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

186 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

186 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection of research from Cuba scholars explores key conflicts, episodes, currents, and tensions that helped shape Cuba as a modern, independent nation. Cuba in the nineteenth century was characterized by social struggle. Slavery, Spanish colonial rule, and racial tension permeated every corner of Cuban life—from urban dwelling to house of charity, from sugarcane field to tobacco vega... Read more

Introduction

Richard E. Morris

1. Transformations of the Cuban Plantation System and the Transatlantic Slave Trade during the Long Nineteenth Century

William C. Van Norman, Jr.

2. Tobacco in the Age of Cuba’s Second Slavery

William A. Morgan

3. A Racial Economy of Care: Incarceration, Labor Extraction, and Charity in Cuba’s Nineteenth-Century Slave Society

Bonnie A. Lucero

4. Breaking Chains: Resistance, Freedom, and the End of Chinese Indentured Labor in Cuba

Benjamín N. Narváez

5. Cuban Industrial Development and Its Heritage

Ilka Pell Delgado

6. Dreams and Nightmares in the Planter’s Metropolis

Asiel Sepúlveda

7. Bullfights, Cockfights, and Other Evils: Origins of the "Cuba Threat" in U.S. Travel Literature

Richard E. Morris

Biography

Richard E. Morris is Professor of Spanish at Middle Tennessee State University. His research spans a range of topics, including Spanish dialectology, the geopolitics of sugarcane, and the development of U.S. tourism in Cuba. His documentary Milton Hershey’s Cuba was a selection of the 2016 Culture Unplugged Film Festival.