Abstract
Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba, by David Sartorius. Duke University Press, 2013. Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony, by Peter M. Beattie. Duke University Press, 2015.
Highlights
Sartorius argues that support for Spanish rule was not limited to people of Spanish ancestry
In Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony, he takes for his subject the island of Fernando de Noronha, which was, during the nineteenth century, the home of Brazil’s largest forced labour penal colony
These two volumes offer compelling vistas into Brazilian and Cuban history by analysing topics that have not been considered in great depth
Summary
Sartorius argues that support for Spanish rule was not limited to people of Spanish ancestry. – Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba, by David Sartorius. – Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a NineteenthCentury Brazilian Penal Colony, by Peter M. Currently Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, analyses ‘how ordinary Cubans expressed support not for national independence but for Spanish colonial government’
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