Elena A Schneider
Biographic Data
| ID | 717660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elena A Schneider |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elena A |
| FAMILY NAME | Schneider |
| SIGNATURE | SCHNEIDER E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation: The Afro-Cuban Fight for Freedom and Equality, 1812-1912
Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation, edited by Aisha Finch and Fannie Rushing, is an inspired and inspiring collection of essays in Cuban history and literature that subverts traditional chronologies in order to center Black political subjectivity. Beginning as a workshop in 2012 to commemorate the double anniversaries of the Aponte Rebellion of 1812 and the massacre in 1912 of the Partido Independiente de Color, the first Black political par…
A Narrative of Escape: Self Liberation by Sea and the Mental Worlds of the Enslaved
This article investigates a singular case of maritime marronage from Jamaica to Cuba in the 1760s to explore the possibilities that archives present to reconstruct the mental worlds of enslaved Africans and the multilingual, transimperial Caribbean underground created by their voyages of escape. Reading Spanish/Cuban and British/Jamaican archives together, the article contextualizes the testimony of a Kongolese man who escaped one of the plantati…
The Slave Societies Digital Archive. https: Www.slavesocieties.org
The Slave Societies Digital Archive (SSDA) is one of the longest-running digital projects on the history of Africans and their descendants in the Atlantic World. Formerly known as Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies, the digital project was launched in 2003 as an NEH-funded collaboration between Jane Landers of Vanderbilt University, Mariza de Carvalho Soares of Universidade Federal Fluminense, and Paul E. Lovejoy of York Unive…
The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
In 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26,000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the wealthiest and most populous ports in the Americas. They met fierce resistance. Spanish soldiers and local militias in Cuba, along with enslaved Africans who were promised freedom, held off the enemy for six suspenseful weeks. In the end, the British prevailed, but more lives were lost in the invasion and subseque…
A Narrative of Escape: Self Liberation by Sea and the Mental Worlds of the Enslaved
This article investigates a singular case of maritime marronage from Jamaica to Cuba in the 1760s to explore the possibilities that archives present to reconstruct the mental worlds of enslaved Africans and the multilingual, transimperial Caribbean underground created by their voyages of escape. Reading Spanish/Cuban and British/Jamaican archives together, the article contextualizes the testimony of a Kongolese man who escaped one of the plantati…
The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
In 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26,000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the wealthiest and most populous ports in the Americas. They met fierce resistance. Spanish soldiers and local militias in Cuba, along with enslaved Africans who were promised freedom, held off the enemy for six suspenseful weeks. In the end, the British prevailed, but more lives were lost in the invasion and subseque…
The Slave Societies Digital Archive. https: Www.slavesocieties.org
The Slave Societies Digital Archive (SSDA) is one of the longest-running digital projects on the history of Africans and their descendants in the Atlantic World. Formerly known as Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies, the digital project was launched in 2003 as an NEH-funded collaboration between Jane Landers of Vanderbilt University, Mariza de Carvalho Soares of Universidade Federal Fluminense, and Paul E. Lovejoy of York Unive…
A Narrative of Escape: Self Liberation by Sea and the Mental Worlds of the Enslaved
This article investigates a singular case of maritime marronage from Jamaica to Cuba in the 1760s to explore the possibilities that archives present to reconstruct the mental worlds of enslaved Africans and the multilingual, transimperial Caribbean underground created by their voyages of escape. Reading Spanish/Cuban and British/Jamaican archives together, the article contextualizes the testimony of a Kongolese man who escaped one of the plantati…
Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation: The Afro-Cuban Fight for Freedom and Equality, 1812-1912
Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation, edited by Aisha Finch and Fannie Rushing, is an inspired and inspiring collection of essays in Cuban history and literature that subverts traditional chronologies in order to center Black political subjectivity. Beginning as a workshop in 2012 to commemorate the double anniversaries of the Aponte Rebellion of 1812 and the massacre in 1912 of the Partido Independiente de Color, the first Black political par…
Cuban History and Society (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Empire (2 works) · 1739-1748 (1 works)