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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (3): 566–567.
Published: 01 August 1969
... by an Afro-Cuban who experienced first-hand the rigors of slavery, life in the barracoons, the loneliness and fear of the runaway slave’s existence, and the excitement and confusion of the Cuban War of Liberation, 1895-1899, when it was difficult to distinguish patriot from opportunist and collaborator...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (2): 336–338.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Beau D. J. Gaitors South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War . By Alice L. Baumgartner . New York : Basic Books , 2020 . Maps. Tables. Notes. Index . xi, 365 pp. Cloth, $32.00 . Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 The dominant...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (2): 330–331.
Published: 01 May 2005
...José F. Buscaglia-Salgado Runaway Slave Settlements in Cuba: Resistance and Repression . By La Rosa Corzo Gabino . Translated by Todd Mary . Envisioning Cuba . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2003 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (2): 340–341.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Stephanie Smith Runaway Daughters: Seduction, Elopement, and Honor in Nineteenth-Century Mexico . By Sloan Kathryn A. . Albuquerque, NM : University of New Mexico Press , 2008 . Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi , 244 pp. Paper , $27.95 . Copyright 2010...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (3): 469–498.
Published: 01 August 2002
..., territorial disputes made it more and more difficult to control and police that area. There was mutual distrust between France and Portugal regarding their colonies in that region. Doing their best to honor the treaty, the French and Portuguese authorities returned runaway slaves to each other on several...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (2): 343–345.
Published: 01 May 1998
... University Press 1998 The 18 articles in this book (including a valuable introductory essay by the editors) focus on quilombos , or runaway-slave settlements, an all but omnipresent feature of slave resistance that challenged Brazil’s ruling classes for more than three hundred years. Five authors...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (2): 247–274.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 This article reexamines the historical trajectory of escaped slaves who, encouraged by the abolitionist propaganda of the 1880s, established themselves in the runaway slave communities of Jabaquara and Pai Felipe...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (3): 391–421.
Published: 01 August 2020
... and exiled from their home communities in Cartagena province's hinterlands. In April 1693, in the midst of growing rumors of an uprising of enslaved persons led by runaways, the governor and city council of Cartagena decided to launch a military campaign against the palenque Matudere. Local notaries copied...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (1): 188–189.
Published: 01 February 1990
... largely from records on runaway slaves compiled by the development council of the Havana Consulado during the nineteenth-century sugar boom. It shows distributions of captured runaways by month, year, and decade as well as by their sex, age, provincial origins, and ethnicity. Some of his figures hold...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (4): 703–704.
Published: 01 November 2011
... of Spaniards caught between their desire for African laborers and the territory’s ability to conceal runaways. The Castilla de Oro’s unique economic geography, with the key ports of Nombre de Dios and Panamá situated on opposite sides of the isthmus’s unsettled and difficult-to-traverse interior, facilitated...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (2): 369–371.
Published: 01 May 2019
... runaway slaves, debt peons imbued the border with “potentially subversive meanings” and, in the process, forced the governments of both Mexico and the United States to articulate the differences between their two nations (p. 7). The Mexican government forged more successful alliances with fugitive...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1974) 54 (4): 748.
Published: 01 November 1974
... anthology on runaway slave communities is very comprehensive. Its twenty-one selections describe examples of such groups in Spanish America, Portuguese Brazil, the French Caribbean, and English Jamaica. The authors view maroonage from a variety of perspectives, ranging from institutional to socio-historical...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (4): 758–759.
Published: 01 November 1989
... seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when much unsettled land still existed. This phenomenal growth, however, eventually placed them in conflict with whites who became alarmed at Maroon raids on the plantations and their harboring of runaway slaves, despite increasingly aggressive government campaigns...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (3): 503–504.
Published: 01 August 1980
...Roberta Marx Delson Palmares: A Guerra dos Escravos . By Freitas Décio . Rev. ed. Rio de Janeiro , 1978 . Edições Graal . Map. Bibliography . Pp. 199 . Paper. Copyright 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 The runaway slave community ( quilombo ) at Palmares in Pernambuco...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (4): 639–655.
Published: 01 November 1969
... nothing but a few pieces of palmito (palm heart) during the trip. 26 Among the runaway slaves were the wife and children of the freedman Pio. 25 Cidade do Rio , October 27, 1887. 24 ibid. , November 5, 1887, 3. 23 Rio News , August 24, 1887, 4. 22 O Paiz , November...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (3): 525–526.
Published: 01 August 2021
... the Americas. Her work, however, shifts the focus to not just the bodies that wore the clothing but also the visual representation of clothing in print culture. Walker uses legal codes, edicts, newsletters, criminal cases, notarial records, wills, and runaway ads to delve into the body politics of Lima...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (4): 696–698.
Published: 01 November 2013
... cultural and economic analysis of the interactions of Willemstad with Tierra Firme. Willemstad welcomed Venezuelan priests, merchants, and mulatto runaway-slave hunters. Papiamentu-speaking runaway slaves from Curaçao, in turn, created towns all over the Venezuelan coast in places such as Coro, Tucacas, La...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (1): 154–156.
Published: 01 February 2020
... beyond the confines of the plantation and thrived out of the masters' sight. Runaway slaves also made the natural world their own, relying on their growing knowledge of riverine and forest escape routes and utilizing geographical features like waterfalls to evade their pursuers. After abolition...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (2): 259–290.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., as in the case of protecting sailors who were runaway slaves. See Mamigonian, “José Majojo.” 60. Ferreira, O Rio da Prata , 226. 61. Bethell, A abolição . 62. Baron Howard de Walden to Henry Vereker, 17 Aug. 1854, National Archives, Kew (hereafter cited as TNA), Foreign Office 84, codex 943...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (2): 363–364.
Published: 01 May 1976
... situation of the African. The African response to this situation is discussed in a section on slave runaways and rebellions. In the conclusion the editor provides a section on slave manumission, emancipation and abolition, thus ending the story with the abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1888. The Afro...
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