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Negros Cimarrones - Cuba

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Item data

Title

Negros Cimarrones - Cuba

Collection

Miscellaneous Afro-Latin America Collection

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1837 - 1838

Library Location

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Shelf locator: Sc MG 418
Shelf locator: Box 1, Folder 22

Subjects

Black people -- History -- Latin America
Black people -- Social conditions
Slavery -- History -- Latin America
Enslaved persons -- Latin America -- Social conditions
Slave rebellions
Matanzas (Cuba)

Genres

Reports

Notes

Content: Series of handwritten reports made to the provincial governor by Captain Antonio Garacia Gral and his subordinates, providing an account of maroons who had revolted and escaped into the forests of Ceira de Mocha in Matanzas Province. The military was unable to subdue them and hired bounty hunters with dogs to enter the forests in pursuit.

Languages

Spanish, Castilian

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b18401028
Archives ID: 22005
Archives EAD ID: 3197858
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): b0b35680-dfab-0132-2a0d-58d385a7b928

Rights

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Negros Cimarrones - Cuba" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1837 - 1838. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b0b35680-dfab-0132-2a0d-58d385a7b928

APA format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. (1837 - 1838). Negros Cimarrones - Cuba Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b0b35680-dfab-0132-2a0d-58d385a7b928

Chicago/Turabian Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Negros Cimarrones - Cuba" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 13, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b0b35680-dfab-0132-2a0d-58d385a7b928

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