Manuel Barcia Paz, Seeds of Insurrection: Domination and Resistance on Western Cuban Plantations, 1808-1848

Manuel Barcia Paz, Seeds of Insurrection: Domination and Resistance on Western Cuban Plantations, 1808-1848 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008) hb 209pp, ISBN: 9780807133651 Reviewed by William C. Van Norman Manuel Barcia has written an accessible and important study of slave resistance in western Cuba during the nineteenth century. [...]Barcia begins with a discussion of African origins and the historical context of slave trading regions, paying special attention to the regions from which the majority of Cuban slaves were traded and shipped to the island.