Powerful Subjects: The Duplicity of Slave Owners in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

This article explores the ways in which Cuban-based merchants and planters attempted to keep a robust control upon their increasingly large slave population, while endeavouring to show to the rest of the world an idyllic picture of Cuban slavery. By using James C. Scott's concepts of ‘Hidden’ a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Manuel Barcia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pluto Journals 2015-03-01
Series:International Journal of Cuban Studies
Online Access:https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/intejcubastud.7.1.0099