The year of the lash free people of color in Cuba and the nineteenth-century Atlantic world /

Main Author: Reid-Vazquez, Michele.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2011.
Series:Early American places
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10521990
Table of Contents:
  • "Very prejudicial" : free people of color in a slave society
  • Spectacles of power : repressing the conspiracy of La Escalera
  • Calculated expulsions : free people of color in Mexico, the U.S., Spain, and North Africa
  • Acts of excess and insubordination : resisting the tranquility of terror
  • The rise and fall of the militia of color : from the constitution of 1812 to the Escalera era
  • Balancing acts : the shifting dynamics of race and immigration.