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Manuel Barcia: "`Going Back Home’: Slave Suicides in Colonial Cuba". Tubman Seminar Series, September 30, 2010.

Submitted by hti on Sun, 09/26/2010 – 20:14

Dr. Manuel Barcia is a Lecturer in Latin America Studies and Deputy Director of the Institute for Colonial and Poscolonial Studies, University of Leeds.

His research interests include African slavery and slave trade in the Atlantic World; Forms of slave resistance in the Americas (particularly the Spanish Caribbean and Brazil); and Contemporary Latin American History.

Major Publications:

  • Con el látigo de la ira. Legislación, represión y control en las plantaciones cubanas, 1790-1870 (Havana: Ciencias Sociales, 2000). Award of Essay on Social Sciences ‘Pinos Nuevos 1999’.
  • ‘Seeds of Insurrection’: Domination and Resistance on Western Cuban Plantations, 1808-1848 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008). http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress/bookPages/9780807133651.html
  • Facts on File Encyclopaedia of the Caribbean [co-edited with John Garrigus]. (Facts on File, forthcoming 2010).
  • ‘The Clap of Thunder: The African Slave Rebellion of 1825 in Cuba (under consideration with Louisiana State University Press).
Place: 
The Tubman Insitute, 321 York Lanes.
Date: 
Thu, 09/30/2010