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Seminar ppt

Seminar Questions

• Why was slavery abolished in Cuba?
• Who contributed (free people of colour? Elite creoles? Women? The enslaved? Spanish abolitionists..?)
• How did antislavery and anticolonial movements intersect (or clash)?
• What were the intersections between Spanish colonial power and slavery? Was it possible to have one without the other?
• Why does it matter how we tell the story of abolition in Cuba?

Seminar reading: choose at least 1:

Scott, Rebecca. . Princeton University Press, 1985.

• • Introduction

• Ada Ferrer, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999)
  
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• Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher. Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1833-1874. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999.
  • 鈥泪苍迟谤辞诲耻肠迟颈辞苍鈥�
  • Chapter 5: 鈥淭he Colonial Public Sphere: The Making of the Spanish Abolitionist Society,鈥�100-125

Further readings:

Adriana Chira, , CUP 2022

Aline Helg, Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912. UNC, 1995

Scott, Rebecca, , 2005

170 (2001): 181-216.

Karen Y Morrison, , Indiana University Press, 2015 (nineteenth/ early twentieth century chapters)

Cowling, Camillia Conceiving Freedom: Women of Colour, Gender and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro 2013

Aisha Finch and Fannie Rushing, eds. 2019

Rubiera Castillo, Daisy, , Latin America Bureau, 2000

Alejandro de la Fuente , UNC Press 2001

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. [note: includes historical racist images and violence]

Prados-Torreira, Teresa. University of Florida Press 2005.

Jose Marti, "My Race" [Mi raza], 1893, A classic text by one of the founding thinkers of the anticolonial struggle, arguing for a Cuban national identity beyond race or former enslaved origins

Louis Perez, Jr., (UNC Press, 2008), chapter 3: "Metaphor as Paradigm". Shows how ideas about race, post-emancipation settings and empire helped forge a new North American imperialism in Cuba. [note: contains racist cartoons that demonstrate the thinking of the era.]

David Sartorius," in New Countries: Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, ed. John Tutino (Duke University Press 2016) Explores the tensions of Spanish notions of colonial citizenship, race, and slavery's continuity in C19 Cuba

, eds. Richard Graham et.al (University of Texas Press, 1990) (esp Aline Helg chapter on Cuba)

Alejandra Bronfman, (UNC Press, 2004) [note: contains racist images from the era]

Sartorius, David. . Duke University Press, 2013