TY  - GEN
AU  - Sartorious,David
TI  - Ever Faithful : Race, Loyalty and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba
SN  - OAPEN_469253 [2]
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Durham, NC
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Latin America
KW  - bicssc
KW  - history
KW  - Captain general
KW  - Cienfuegos
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Havana
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Spain
KW  - Spanish Empire
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Known for much of the nineteenth century as "the ever-faithful isle," Cuba did not earn its independence from Spain until 1898, long after most American colonies had achieved emancipation from European rule. In this groundbreaking history, David Sartorius explores the relationship between political allegiance and race in nineteenth-century Cuba. Challenging assumptions that loyalty to the Spanish empire was the exclusive province of the white Cuban elite, he examines the free and enslaved people of African descent who actively supported colonialism. By claiming loyalty, many black and mulatto Cubans attained some degree of social mobility, legal freedom, and political inclusion in a world where hierarchy and inequality were the fundamental lineaments of colonial subjectivity. Sartorius explores Cuba's battlefields, plantations, and meeting halls to consider the goals and limits of loyalty
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/beb97979-3929-4b55-978d-cc026487d52d/649957.pdf
UR  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30143
ER  -