Antonio Marrero

The Book of Blood

• Author(s): Néstor Ponce de León

• Categories: Cuba

• Type: Book
• -
• Published: 1871
• -
• Publisher: Unknown

None

Official Journal

• Author(s): Louisiana. Legislature. Senate

• Type: Book
• -
• Published: 1866
• -
• Publisher: Unknown

None

Acts Passed by the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana at the Session of the Legislature

• Author(s): Louisiana

• Type: Book
• -
• Published: 1866
• -
• Publisher: Unknown

None

The Year of the Lash

• Author(s): Michele Reid-Vazquez

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
• -
• Published: 2011
• -
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Michele Reid-Vazquez reveals the untold story of the strategies of negotia­tion used by free blacks in the aftermath of the “Year of the Lash”—a wave of repression in Cuba that had great implications for the Atlantic World in the next two decades. At dawn on June 29, 1844, a firing squad in Havana executed ten accused ringleaders of the Conspiracy of La Escalera, an alleged plot to abolish slavery and colonial rule in Cuba. The condemned men represented prominent members of Cuba's free community of African descent, including the acclaimed poet Plácido (Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés). In an effort to foster a white majority and curtail black rebellion, Spanish colonial authorities...

Album and Guide to Teneriffe

• Author(s): Vicente Bonnet Torres

• Categories: Tenerife (Canary Islands)

• Type: Book
• -
• Published: 1898
• -
• Publisher: Unknown

None