Runaway Slave Settlements in Cuba: Resistance and RepressionCombining archaeological and historical methods, Gabino La Rosa Corzo provides the most detailed and accurate available account of the runaway slave settlements (palenques) that formed in the inaccessible mountain chains of eastern Cuba from 1737 t |
Contents
Slave Resistance in Eastern Cuba The First Few Centuries of Colonial Rule | 35 |
El Portillo | 43 |
The Attack on El Portillo | 45 |
The Captured Runaways | 49 |
A Settling of Accounts | 62 |
Decades of Economic Development | 66 |
Active Resistance in the Eastern Region 17901820 | 79 |
Runaway Slave Settlements East of Santiago de Cuba | 99 |
Last LargeScale Attacks on the Eastern Palenques | 178 |
Last of the Runaways Living in Settlements | 207 |
Runaway Slave Settlements as a System of Resistance | 223 |
Specific Characteristics of the Eastern Settlements | 231 |
Forms of Settlement | 235 |
Types of Dwellings in Runaway Slave Settlements | 243 |
Adaptability of the Repressive System | 250 |
Appendixes | 255 |
Runaway Slave Settlements in the Northern Mountain Ranges | 104 |
Eastern Palenques in the Period of Slave Plantation Expansion | 117 |
Runaway Slave Settlements in the Mayari Mountains | 120 |
Tightening of the Eastern Repressive System | 129 |
Consolidation of Resistance and Repression | 140 |
Expansion and Decline | 169 |
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