ABSTRACT

This study tells the story of a West African woman, Teresa Mina, as a window onto a relatively unexplored aspect of nineteenth-century slavery in Cuba: the journeys around the island of Africans and their descendants, long after surviving the Atlantic slave trade. Coerced displacement, herein termed “slave-moving,” was fundamental to the experience of slavery and to the contested process of “place-making” occurring on the island. Slave-moving served the practical needs of the expanding plantation economy, occurring via the same transport systems that enabled faster transfer of commodities, and became a key function of the colonial bureaucracy. It also served disciplinary purposes, deepening slaveholders’ power and unfree people’s subjection. Its effects were strongly gendered, exposing women to heightened, specific forms of subjugation. Throughout, the essay also explores how unfree people managed to travel of their own will, in ways that were nonetheless closely connected to the processes of slave-moving and place-making.

摘要

这项研究讲述了一个西非妇女特蕾莎·米娜（Teresa Mina）的故事，作为通向19世纪古巴奴隶制一个相对未曾探索的方面的窗口：在大西洋奴隶贸易幸存下来很长时间之后，围绕非洲人及其子孙的旅程。强迫流离失所，在这里被称为“奴隶移动”，是奴隶制经历和在岛上发生的有争议的“地方建造”过程的基础。奴隶移动满足了扩大种植园经济的实际需求，而这种需求是通过相同的运输系统实现的，该运输系统能够更快地转移商品，并成为殖民地官僚机构的关键职能。它还起到了纪律目的，加深了奴隶主的权力和不自由的人民的服从度。它的作用具有强烈的性别歧视性，使妇女更容易受到特定形式的征服。自始至终，