Cuban slavery from the inside out : nonfiction narratives of Cuban slavery by Cuban and US writers /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Paulk, Julia C. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2026]
Series:	Caribbean studies series.
Subjects:	Manzano, Juan Francisco, > 1797-1854 Slavery > Cuba > History > 19th century. Slavery > Cuba. Enslaved persons > Cuba > History > 19th century. Plantation life > Cuba > History > 19th century. Cuba > 19th century. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Writing about Cuban slavery
Part I: Writing from inside Cuba
Chapter One: The many discourses of Juan Francisco Manzano: Disruptions to coloniality in "Autobiografía del esclavo poeta"
Chapter Two: Costumbrismo criollo: Enlightenment ideals and the discourse of coloniality
Chapter Three: The tyrannies of liberty and equality: The Condesa de Merlin's colonialist travels
Part II: Writing from outside Cuba
Chapter Four: Manifest coloniality: Maturin Murray Ballou and the "Africanization" of Cuba
Chapter Five: Blackface, plantations, and tropical spaces: Julia Ward Howe's A trip to Cuba
Chapter Six: La Guerra de los Diez Años and the Lost Cause: Eliza Ripley's Desengaño
Conclusion and an epilogue: Legacies of nineteenth-century coloniality
Notes
Works cited
Index.