Runaway Slave Settlements in Cuba: Resistance and Repression
- ISBN-10
- 0807854794
- ISBN-13
- 9780807854792
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 292
- Language
- Spanish
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- UNC Press Books
- Author
- Gabino La Rosa Corzo
Description
Combining 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
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