Book contents
- African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850
- African American Literature in Transition
- African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology, 1830–1850
- Introduction
- Part I Local Transitions
- Part II National Transitions
- Part III Transnational Transitions
- Chapter 8 Cosmopolitanism, Character, and the Theories of Early African American Literature
- Chapter 9 Race, Slavery, and Emigration in Black Women’s Life Writing
- Chapter 10 The Impact of West Indian Emancipation on African American Poetry
- Chapter 11 La Escalera, Sentiment, and Revolution in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
- Chapter 12 Europe, Mexico, and the African American 1848
- Chapter 13 Frederick Douglass, the Irish Famine, and the Lessons of Environmental History
- Index
Chapter 11 - La Escalera, Sentiment, and Revolution in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
from Part III - Transnational Transitions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2021
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Book contents
- African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850
- African American Literature in Transition
- African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology, 1830–1850
- Introduction
- Part I Local Transitions
- Part II National Transitions
- Part III Transnational Transitions
- Chapter 8 Cosmopolitanism, Character, and the Theories of Early African American Literature
- Chapter 9 Race, Slavery, and Emigration in Black Women’s Life Writing
- Chapter 10 The Impact of West Indian Emancipation on African American Poetry
- Chapter 11 La Escalera, Sentiment, and Revolution in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
- Chapter 12 Europe, Mexico, and the African American 1848
- Chapter 13 Frederick Douglass, the Irish Famine, and the Lessons of Environmental History
- Index
Summary
This chapter shifts to the island of Cuba and the La Escalera conspiracy in the mid-1840s. As this chapter reveals, this conspiracy between free and enslaved people of color in the Spanish colony to overthrow their oppressors takes center stage in the later novels of Martin Delany and Andrés Avelino de Orihuela, each of whom turns to La Escalera in order to develop a particular vision of Black revolution in the hemisphere.
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- African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850 , pp. 244 - 267Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021