Louis A. Perez Jr. - Slaves, Sugar, & Colonial Society: Travel Accounts of Cuba, 1801-1899
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A Scholarly Resources Inc. Imprint Wilmington, Delaware
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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for permanence of paper for printed library materials, Z39.48, 1984.
1992 by Scholarly Resources Inc. All rights reserved First published 1992 Printed and bound in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Slaves, sugar, and colonial society : travel accounts of Cuba, 18011899 / edited by Louis A. Prez, Jr. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8420-2354-2. ISBN 0-8420-2415-8 (pbk.) 1. CubaSocial conditions. 2. Visitors, ForeignCuba Attitudes. 3. CubaHistory18101899. I. Prez, Louis A., 1943 . HN203.S57 1992 306'.097291dc20 91-44977 CIP
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To the memory of Thomas P. Dilkes (19261991): teacher, colleague, and friend
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Louis A. Prez, Jr., is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Florida, Tampa. His previous books include Cuba between Empires, 18781902 (1983), Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution (1988), and Cuba and the United States: Ties of Singular Intimacy (1990).
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xi
I Havana
1
II The Sugar Plantation: Production, Culture, and Economy
41
III Slaves and Slavery
97
IV Crime and Punishment
133
V Church, State, and Religion
147
VI Health, Education, and Charity
179
VII Rural Life
203
VIII Nineteenth-Century Society
225
List of Sources
249
Bibliographical Essay: Selected Titles
251
Index
257
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Acknowledgments
This book would not have been possible without the assistance of many others. The staffs of the Library of Congress, the University of Florida Library, and the Library of the University of South Florida provided many of the more useful narratives. I am especially appreciative of the assistance of the interlibrary loan office of the University of South Florida, and of Sharon K. Epps, Pamela See, and Mary Kay Hartung. I am indebted to Carole Rennick, who over the course of two years worked laboriously and patiently to bring the disparate and fragmentary elements of this book into a unified whole. To Richard M. Hopper is owed a particular acknowledgment of gratitude; his patience and encouragement supported the project from its inception.
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Introduction
I
The nineteenth century was a time of change in Cuba, dramatic and visible change, almost everywhere on the island, for almost everyonemen and women of all races, of all ages, of all classes. These were decades in which change produced change, often in rapid succession. Residents learned to live with change as a way of life. It often came in ways that were immediate, and people's lives were instantly modified forever. Other times it arrived slowly, from sources unseen and with effects at the time unknown. Change occurred faster in the cities than in the countrysidefastest in Havana and slowest in Oriente. The rural interior often assumed the appearance of changelessness. Novelty and new ways arrived slowly, if at all.
Change was a recurring phenomenon on the island, or so it seemed after the end of the eighteenth century: It was familiar, a condition around which most Cubans routinely organized their daily lives. During these years market forces transformed sugar production into the dominant economic activity of the island and in the process changed everything else. This was true nowhere more than in the realm of relationships: economic and political relations between the colony and the metropolis and social relations within the colony, between whites and blacks and among whites themselves as cultural and ethnic distinctions between Creoles and
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