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Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: A Documentary History (review)

This book is an outstanding collection of primary sources that will prove useful to historians for both classroom work and research. The book tells the story of slavery and freedom in nineteenthcentury Cuba, mostly through documents housed at the National Archives in Havana that have largely been inaccessible to students and scholars outside of Cuba. This book contains more than 70 transcriptions or partial transcriptions of historical documents, most of which date from the 1800s and have never before been published in English. Nancy Westrate’s translation of the documents is accurate and meticulous. There is a useful foreword by Ada Ferrer that situates the book in its larger scholarly context. In eight thematic sections preceded by an introduction, the author offers a comprehensive survey of Cuban slave society. The introduction touches upon topics such as the dynamics of colonization in the expansion of plantations, the impact of such expansion on rural life, the internal dynamics of social life in slave communities, and the sustained efforts of the enslaved to modify the ways laws governing slavery and freedom were applied.