SOURCE: Coulthard, G. R. “The Anti-Slavery Novel in Cuba: Indians and Negroes.” In Race and Colour in Caribbean Literature, pp. 6-26. London: Oxford University Press, 1962.
In the following essay, Coulthard discusses antislavery themes in several nineteenth-century Cuban novels and poems, arguing that abolitionism was in many respects a cause taken up by Cuban liberals to gain the support of the island's black majority to help overthrow Spain's colonial rule.
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