Women And Slavery In Nineteenth Century Colonial Cuba

Author : Sarah L. Franklin
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 1580464025
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Slavery in Nineteenth-century Colonial Cuba written by Sarah L. Franklin and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates how patriarchy operated in the lives of the women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves Scholars have long recognized the importance of gender and hierarchy in the slave societies of the New World, yet gendered analysis of Cuba has lagged behind study of other regions. Cuban elites recognized that creating and maintaining the Cuban slave society required a rigid social hierarchy based on race, gender, and legal status. Given the dramatic changes that came to Cuba in the wake of the Haitian Revolution and the growth of the enslaved population, the maintenance of order required a patriarchy that placed both women and slaves among the lower ranks. Based on a variety of archival and printed primary sources, this book examines how patriarchy functioned outside the confines of the family unit by scrutinizing the foundation on which nineteenth-century Cuban patriarchy rested. This book investigates how patriarchy operated in the lives of the women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves. Through chapters on motherhood, marriage, education, public charity, and the sale of slaves, insight is gained into the role of patriarchy both as a guiding ideology and lived history in the Caribbean's longest lasting slave society. Sarah L. Franklin is assistant professor of history at the University of North Alabama.

Author : Teresa Prados-Torreira
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817320792
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Their Will written by Teresa Prados-Torreira and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable narrative of the often paradoxical and conflicting human bonds between female owners and the enslaved in nineteenth-century Cuba In the early nineteenth century, while abolitionism was rising and the slave trade was declining in the Atlantic world, Spain used this opportunity to massively expand plantation slavery in Cuba. Between 1501 and 1866, more than 778,000 Africans were torn from their homelands and brought to work for the Cuban slaveholding class. An understudied aspect of Cuban slaveholding society is the role of the white Cuban slave mistress (amas). The Power of Their Will: Slaveholding Women in Nineteenth-Century Cuba illuminates the interaction of female slaveholders and the enslaved during this time. Teresa Prados-Torreira shows, despite the lack of political power in a highly patriarchal society, Cuban women as property owners were instrumental in supporting the long duration of slavery, whether by enforcing the disciplining of the enslaved in the domestic sphere or helping to create the illusion of slavery as a humane institution. Thousands of Creole slaveholding women relied on slaves to lead a comfortable life. Even the subsistence of many poor women depended on the income derived from the hiring out of their enslaved. In this accessible cultural history, culled from government documents, fiction, newspaper articles, traveler’s accounts, women’s wills, and archival research, Prados-Torreira coalesces a valuable narrative out of the often paradoxical and conflicting stories of the human bonds between the female owner and the enslaved. Narrative chapters, enlivened by vignettes, describe the daily life of slave mistresses in the main cities of Havana and Santiago and other towns, workings of sugar mills and coffee plantations, how slaveholding women coping with slave rebellions and wartime during the Ten Years’ War, and how personal relationships could occasionally affect the balance of power.

Author : Verena Stolcke
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472064052
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marriage, Class, and Colour in Nineteenth-century Cuba written by Verena Stolcke and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of marriage patterns in 19th-century Cuba

Author : Gloria García Rodríguez
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807877670
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-Century Cuba written by Gloria García Rodríguez and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Putting the voices of the enslaved front and center, Gloria Garcia Rodriguez's study presents a compelling overview of African slavery in Cuba and its relationship to the plantation system that was the economic center of the New World. A major essay by Garcia, who has done decades of archival research on Cuban slavery, introduces the work, providing a history of the development, maintenance, and economy of the slave system in Cuba, which was abolished in 1886, later than in any country in the Americas except Brazil. The second part of the book features eighty previously unpublished primary documents selected by Garcia that vividly illustrate the experiences of Cuba's African slaves. This translation offers English-language readers a substantial look into the very rich, and much underutilized, material on slavery in Cuban archives and is especially suitable for teaching about the African diaspora, comparative slavery, and Cuban studies. Highlighting both the repressiveness of slavery and the legal and social spaces opened to slaves to challenge that repression, this collection reveals the rarely documented voices of slaves, as well as the social and cultural milieu in which they lived.

Author : Daylet Domínguez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000932680
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery, Mobility, and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Cuba written by Daylet Domínguez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-06 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 attention to debates between abolitionists and proslavery ideologues, the ways in which people and ideas moved from the countryside to the city, from one Caribbean Island to the next, and from the United States or the coasts of West Africa to the sugarcane fields. They examine how enslaved persons ran away or were captured and coerced to relocate; how they mobilized information and ideas to ameliorate their situation; and how they were used to advance other people’s interests. Movement, these chapters show, was regularly deployed to reinforce enslavement and the suppression of rights, while at times helping people in their struggle for freedom. This book will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Latin American Literature, Global Slavery and Postcolonial Studies. The chapters were originally published in the journal Atlantic Studies: Global Currents.

Author : Claudia Varella
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 1683401921
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wage-Earning Slaves written by Claudia Varella and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wage-Earning Slaves is the first systematic study of coartación, a process by which slaves worked toward purchasing their freedom in installments, long recognized as a distinctive feature of certain areas under Spanish colonial rule in the nineteenth century. Focusing on Cuba, this book reveals that instead of providing a “path to manumission,” the process was often rife with obstacles that blocked slaves from achieving liberty. Claudia Varella and Manuel Barcia trace the evolution of coartación in the context of urban and rural settings, documenting the lived experiences of slaves through primary sources from many different archives. They show that slave owners grew increasingly intolerant and abusive of the process, and that the laws of coartación were not often followed in practice. The process did not become formalized as a contract between slaves and their masters until 1875, after abolition had already come. Varella and Barcia discuss how coartados did not see an improvement in their situation at this time, but essentially became wage-earning slaves as they continued serving their former owners. The exhaustive research in this volume provides valuable insight into how slaves and their masters negotiated with each other in the ever-changing economic world of nineteenth-century Cuba, where freedom was not always absolute and where abuses and corruption most often prevailed.

Author : Laird W. Bergad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521480590
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cuban Slave Market, 1790-1880 written by Laird W. Bergad and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-05-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery was in many ways the fundamental institution in colonial Cuba, whose economy was based on the export of sugar from the slave-worked plantations. This volume presents a quantitative study of Cuban slavery from the late eighteenth century until 1880, the year slavery was formally abolished on the island. The core of this study is an examination of the yearly movement of slave prices and changes in the demographic characteristics of the slave market. Based on data from the notarial protocol records of the Archivo Nacional de Cuba, this book establishes precise price trends for slaves by age, sex, nationality, and occupation, and considers a number of other variables including the prices of coartados (slaves who had begun the process of buying their freedom) and the patterns of emancipation. Incorporating over 30,000 slave transactions from three separate locations in Cuba - Havana, Santiago, and Cienfuegos - this work comprises the largest extant database on any slave market in the Americas.

Author : Franklin W. Knight
Publisher : Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century written by Franklin W. Knight and published by Madison : University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137073020
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engendering History written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engendering History broadens the base of empirical knowledge on Caribbean women's history and re-evaluates the body of work that exists. The book is pan-Caribbean in its approach, though most articles are on the English-speaking Caribbean, highlighting the research pattern in Caribbean women's history.

Author : Luis Martinez-Fernandez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317470605
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean written by Luis Martinez-Fernandez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a social history of life in mid-19th-century Cuba as experienced by George Backhouse (and his wife, Grace), who served on the British Havana Mixed Commission for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Documented with extracts from the Backhouse's correspondence, diaries and other contemporary papers, Martinez-Fernandez paints a detailed picture of the Cuban slave trade, its role in the sugar industry, and the interrelated contradictions within Cuba's economy, society and politics. The Backhouse story provides addition al insights into important aspects of life in the "male" city of Havana, social antagonisms between Britons and North Americans, interactions with European social circles, religious tension, and the reality of tropical disease. Drama is added to the narrative in the author's description of the tragic and mysterious murder of George Backhouse in August 1855, possibly the result of a slave traders' conspiracy.