Slavery, Mobility, and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

With a focus on nineteenth century Cuba, this volume examines understudied forms of mobility and networks that emerged during Second Slavery. It will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Latin American Literature, Global Slavery and Postcolonial Studies.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Teresa Mina's journeys: "Slave-moving," mobility, and gender in mid-nineteenth-century Cuba 2. Forty-one years a slave: Agnosia and mobility in nineteenth-century Cuba 3. Slaveholders in the South: The networks of Cubans and Southerners in the age of the second slavery 4. Traveling tropes: Race, reconstruction, and "Southern" redemption in The Story of Evangelina Cisneros 5. The journey of Víctor Lucumí Chappotín from Saint-Domingue to Cuba: Slavery, autonomy, and property, 1797-1841 6. Getting locked up to get free in colonial Cuba

About the author

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.

Summary

With a focus on nineteenth century Cuba, this volume examines understudied forms of mobility and networks that emerged during Second Slavery. It will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Latin American Literature, Global Slavery and Postcolonial Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Daylet (University of California Dominguez
• Assisted by: Victor Goldgel Carballo (Editor), Daylet Domínguez (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032523408
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3252340-8
• No. of pages: 132
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Latin America, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / African American & Black, Literary studies: postcolonial literature