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This book tells the extraordinary story of a village of peasants
and miners in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cuba who
were slaves belonging to the king of Spain and whose local
patroness was a miraculous image of the Virgin of Charity of El
Cobre. In reconstructing this history, the book reveals that in
Cuba's eastern region, slavery to the King became a very ambiguous
form of slavery that evolved into forms of freedom unprecedented in
other colonial societies of the New World. The author studies the
relations that developed between the Virgin, the King, and the
royal slaves as the enslaved villagers imagined and negotiated
social identity and freedom in this Caribbean frontier society. In
the process, she examines several dimensions of the royal slaves'
daily and imaginary lives. Drawing on a range of cultural, social,
political, and economic sources, this book presents a multisided
history of enslaved people as they remade colonial spaces and
turned them into a new homeland in El Cobre. As they produced
social memory and appropriated popular religious traditions
centered on the Virgin of Charity, they reinvented their past and
present as a new people within the structures and strictures of
Spain's colonial world.
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