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Year of the Lash
[edit]Article Evaluation
[edit]- Only one source cited (Paquette)
- Vague allusions to "historians'" arguments
- Does not include all of the main arguments within the field
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[edit]Lead
[edit]In 1844, a series of slave revolts formally known as La Escalera (the Ladder Conspiracy) occurred in Cuba. The Cuban government responded to these revolts with a series of highly oppressive and repressive tactics against free and enslaved Black Cubans and free people of color which are now known as the Year of the Lash.
[edit]Sociohistorical Context
[edit]The efflorescence of anti-colonial movements during this time-period
[edit]Mechanisms of Repression
[edit]Stifling of prominent Black Cubans and people of color
[edit]- Plácido (executed)
- Poet
- Juan Francisco Manzano
- First slave narrative
Implementation of Martial Law
[edit]Historical Debates
[edit]- Finch
- Paquette
- Reid-Vasquez
- Michele Reid-Vasquez, a professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburg, approaches the debate surrounding the Ladder Conspiracy from a different angle. Reid-Vasquez turns the dominant debate over the existence of a mass slave conspiracy on its head, arguing that whether the Ladder Conspiracy was a real or contrived event is of little importance. Instead, Reid-Vasquez asserts that the impact that the state-sanctioned violence and the acts of resistance in which Black Cubans and people of color engaged should be the sites of historical investigation and debate
Legacies
[edit]References
[edit]Aisha K. Finch. Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. https://muse.jhu.edu/ (accessed October 26, 2017)
Michele Reid-Vazquez. The Year of the Lash: Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011. https://muse.jhu.edu/ (accessed October 26, 2017).
Paquette, Robert L. 1988. Sugar is made with blood: the conspiracy of La Escalera and the conflict between empires over slavery in Cuba. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press.