Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: A Documentary History

Putting the voices of the enslaved front and center, Gloria García Rodríguez's study presents a compelling overview of African slavery in Cuba and its relationship to the plantation system that was the economic center of the New World. A major essay by García, who has done decades of archival research on Cuban slavery, introduces the work, providing a history of the development, maintenance, and economy of the slave system in Cuba, which was abolished in 1886, later than in any country in t...