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The Sun of Jesus del Monte - A Cuban Antislavery Novel (Hardcover)
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The Sun of Jesus del Monte - A Cuban Antislavery Novel (Hardcover)
Series: Writing the Early Americas
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Translated into English for the first time, Andres Avelino de
Orihuela's El Sol de Jesus del Monte is a landmark Cuban
antislavery novel. Published originally in 1852, the same year as
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (which Orihuela had
translated into Spanish), it provides an uncompromising critique of
discourses of white superiority and an endorsement of equality for
free people of color. Despite its historical and literary value,
The Sun of Jesus del Monte is a long-neglected text, languishing
for 150 years until its republication in 2008 in the original
Spanish. The Sun of Jesus del Monte is the only Cuban novel of its
time to focus on La Escalera, or the Ladder Rebellion, a major
anticolonial and slave insurrection of nineteenth-century Cuba that
shook the world's wealthiest colony in 1843-44. It is also the only
Cuban novel of its time to take direct aim at white privilege and
unsparingly denounce the oppression of free people of color that
intensified after the insurrection. This new critical
edition-featuring an invaluable, contextualizing introduction and
afterword in addition to the new English translation-offers readers
the most detailed portrait of the everyday lives and plight of free
people of color in Cuba in any novel up to the 1850s.
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