The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery (Paperback, New edition)

In 1812, a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most important slave insurrections in Caribbean history. Matt Childs provides the first in-depth analysis of the rebellion, situating it in local, colonial, imperial, and Atlantic World contexts. Childs explains how slaves and free people of color responded to the nineteenth-century ""sugar boom"" in the Spanish colony by planning a rebellion against racial slavery and plantation agriculture. Striking alliances among free people of color and slaves, blacks and mulattoes, Africans and Creoles, and rural and urban populations, rebels were prompted to act by a widespread belief in rumors promising that emancipation was near. Taking further inspiration from the 1791 Haitian Revolution, rebels sought to destroy slavery in Cuba and perhaps even end Spanish rule. By comparing his findings to studies of slave insurrections in Brazil, Haiti, the British Caribbean, and the United States, Childs places the rebellion within the wider story of Atlantic World revolution and political change. The book also features a biographical table, constructed by Childs, of the more than 350 people investigated for their involvement in the rebellion, 34 of whom were executed.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Envisioning Cuba
Release date:	November 2006
First published:	November 2006
Authors:	Matt D. Childs
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8078-5772-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Consumer issues
LSN:	0-8078-5772-6
Barcode:	9780807857724

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