La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844
by
Aisha K. Finch
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Envisioning La Escalera--an underground rebel movement largely composed of Africans living on farms and plantations in rural western Cuba--in the larger context of the long emancipation struggle in Cuba, Aisha Finch demonstrates how organized slave resistance became critical to the unraveling not...