1997
DOI: 10.2307/482901
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Race and Black Mobilization in Colonial and Early Independent Cuba: A Comparative Perspective

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“…It can partly be explained by Cuba's late sugar boom, which boosted slavery when other societies had already embraced the principles of legal equality and free labour. 96 But Venezuela's free pardos followed the same path as their peers in Cartagena: they saw the struggle for independence as the best route to their own equality but did not use their new power to destroy slavery, which slowly desintegrated before its abolition in 1854. "…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…It can partly be explained by Cuba's late sugar boom, which boosted slavery when other societies had already embraced the principles of legal equality and free labour. 96 But Venezuela's free pardos followed the same path as their peers in Cartagena: they saw the struggle for independence as the best route to their own equality but did not use their new power to destroy slavery, which slowly desintegrated before its abolition in 1854. "…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Morris (1984) and McAdam (1999) have shown in the case of the United States how the demographic increase and concentration of African Americans in Southern or Northern cities have been instrumental in the expression of a Black collective voice. In her research about Black mobilization in colonial and early independent Cuba, historian Aline Helg (1997) brings further evidence to this link. The interviews I conducted with mobilization entrepreneurs of the postcolonial African-descended population and their public discourse as reported in the media, demonstrate the relevance of this idea for the French case.…”
Section: Numerical Transformationmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…La marginación y exclusión en la República tuvo para los afrodescendientes graves repercusiones económicas, políticas y sociales. En las provincias orientales sufrían la desposesión de sus tierras e incluso los veteranos de guerra tuvieron que enfrentar sin títulos una fuerte ola migratoria derivada de la guerra y de la llegada de los norteamericanos, que acaparaban tierras para el azúcar y el tabaco (Helg, 1997).…”
Section: Racismo Relativismo Y Nación En La Obra De Fernando Ortizunclassified
“…Como veremos, el periódico Previsión sostiene que la idea de una común humanidad podrá realizarse solo a condición de que se elimine la enajenante condición del racismo. Convertidas en un foro público, las páginas del periódico fueron un espacio en el que mujeres y hombres afrodescendientes, desde sus propias experiencias del racismo, se propusieron recuperar el proyecto político de democracia racial que fuera imaginado en la guerra de la independencia (De la Fuente, 2014;Helg, 1997).…”
Section: El Humanismo Negro Y El Pic El Antirracismo Silenciadounclassified