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  • Short, non-cohesive lead (needs to be revised to be more cohesive)
  • Contains evaluative statements (indicates attempt to "persuade")
  • References unnamed/incited sources (Ex: Many historians say...)
  • Sources scant or unreliable
  • Uneven coverage of "equally important" sources

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Year of the Lash

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Article Evaluation

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  • Only one source cited (Paquette)
  • Vague allusions to "historians'" arguments
  • Does not include all of the main arguments within the field

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Source Notes

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Article Outline

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Lead

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In 1844, a series of slave revolts formally known as La Escalera (the Ladder Conspiracy) occurred in Cuba. The Cuban government responded to these revolts with a series of highly oppressive and repressive tactics against free and enslaved Black Cubans and free people of color which are now known as the Year of the Lash.

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Sociohistorical Context

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The efflorescence of anti-colonial movements during this time-period

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Mechanisms of Repression

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Stifling of prominent Black Cubans and people of color

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  • Plácido (executed)
    • Poet
  • Juan Francisco Manzano
    • First slave narrative

Implementation of Martial Law

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Historical Debates

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  • Finch
  • Paquette
  • Reid-Vasquez
    • Michele Reid-Vasquez, a professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburg, approaches the debate surrounding the Ladder Conspiracy from a different angle. Reid-Vasquez turns the dominant debate over the existence of a mass slave conspiracy on its head, arguing that whether the Ladder Conspiracy was a real or contrived event is of little importance. Instead, Reid-Vasquez asserts that the impact that the state-sanctioned violence and the acts of resistance in which Black Cubans and people of color engaged should be the sites of historical investigation and debate

Legacies

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References

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Aisha K. Finch. Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. https://muse.jhu.edu/ (accessed October 26, 2017)

Michele Reid-Vazquez. The Year of the Lash: Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011. https://muse.jhu.edu/ (accessed October 26, 2017).

Paquette, Robert L. 1988. Sugar is made with blood: the conspiracy of La Escalera and the conflict between empires over slavery in Cuba. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press.