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Teresa Mina’s journeys : “Slave-moving,” mobility, and gender in mid-nineteenth-century Cuba
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Cowling, Camillia (2021) Teresa Mina’s journeys : “Slave-moving,” mobility, and gender in mid-nineteenth-century Cuba. Atlantic Studies, 18 (1). pp. 7-30. doi:10.1080/14788810.2020.1783191 ISSN 1478-8810.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2020.1783191
Abstract
This study tells the story of a West African woman, Teresa Mina, as a window onto a relatively unexplored aspect of nineteenth-century slavery in Cuba: the journeys around the island of Africans and their descendants, long after surviving the Atlantic slave trade. Coerced displacement, herein termed “slave-moving,” was fundamental to the experience of slavery and to the contested process of “place-making” occurring on the island. Slave-moving served the practical needs of the expanding plantation economy, occurring via the same transport systems that enabled faster transfer of commodities, and became a key function of the colonial bureaucracy. It also served disciplinary purposes, deepening slaveholders’ power and unfree people’s subjection. Its effects were strongly gendered, exposing women to heightened, specific forms of subjugation. Throughout, the essay also explores how unfree people managed to travel of their own will, in ways that were nonetheless closely connected to the processes of slave-moving and place-making.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Atlantic Studies | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
ISSN: | 1478-8810 | ||||||
Official Date: | 16 February 2021 | ||||||
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Volume: | 18 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 7-30 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/14788810.2020.1783191 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Atlantic Studies on [date of publication], available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/[Article DOI].” | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Copyright Holders: | © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited | ||||||
Description: | Part of special issue "Slavery, Mobility and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Cuba," eds. Daylet Dominguez and Victor Goldgel Carballo |
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 18 May 2020 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 February 2021 | ||||||
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