The Year of the Lash: Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World 20th Century With eight children by six

With eight children by six baby mommas and counting

As the United States championed principles of freedom and equality during World War II

He relates his experiences with the voodoo priestess who initiated him into the religion's rituals

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1786605325

The Year of the Lash: Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World 20th Century With eight children by sixMichele Reid Vazquez reveals the untold story of the strategies of negotiation used by free blacks in the aftermath of the Year of the Lasha wave of repression in Cuba that had great implications for the Atlantic World in the next two decades. At dawn on June 29, 1844, a firing squad in Havana executed ten accused ringleaders of the Conspiracy of La Escalera, an alleged plot to abolish slavery and colonial rule in Cuba. The condemned men represented