(CUBA) Cuban censorship reports on Gertrudis Gómez de Avella

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(CUBA.) Cuban censorship reports on Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's classic antislavery novel Sab. 5 manuscript reports on 7 disbound leaves, each about 8 x 6 inches, most signed by José Maria Vergara; mount remnants on inside edge, laminated, trimmed. Santiago, Cuba, September 1844 to January 1845

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Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814-1873), a Cuban woman who moved to Spain in 1836, published the novel Sab in 1841. It tells the story of a Cuban slave who falls in love with his mistress. Written eleven years before Uncle Tom's Cabin, it was regarded as a subversive abolitionist work, and remained banned in Cuba until 1914. The first of these reports explains that the book contained subversive doctrines on Cuban slavery ("contiene doctrinas suvercisos del sistema de esclavitud de la isla"), and that the shipment of 84 books should be returned at the owner's expense after paying the appropriate fine. The other reports cover the logistics of shipping the books back to Cadiz.