Slavery, Mobility, and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

Daylet Domínguez, Victor Goldgel Carballo, Daylet Domínguez, Victor Goldgel Carballo

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032523354
• eBook ISBN: 9781000932713
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• 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
• Index