The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery

In 1812 a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most important slave insurrections in Caribbean history. Matt Childs provides the first in-depth analysis of the rebellion, situating it in local, colonial, imperial, and Atlantic World contexts.

Childs explains how slaves and free people of color responded to the nineteenth-century “sugar boom” in the Spanish colony by planning a rebellion against racia...