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

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In 1812 a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebel erupted around the island of Cuba, comprising one of the most largest and most necessary slave insurrections in Caribbean history. Matt Childs provides the first in-depth analysis of the Rebel, 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” within the Spanish colony by planning a Rebel against racial slavery and plantation agriculture. Striking alliances among free people of color and slaves, blacks and mulattoes, Africans and Creoles, and rural and urban populations, rebels were prompted to act by a widespread belief in rumors promising that emancipation was once near. Taking further inspiration from the 1791 Haitian Revolution, rebels sought to destroy slavery in Cuba and even perhaps end Spanish rule. By comparing his findings to studies of slave insurrections in Brazil, Haiti, the British Caribbean, and the US, Childs places the Rebel throughout the wider story of Atlantic World revolution and political change. The book also includes a biographical table, constructed by Childs, of the more than 350 people investigated for their involvement within the Rebel, 34 of whom were executed.

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