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THE REVOLT AND CAPTURE OF "CIMARRONES" IN CUBA (CUBA.) Sobre palenques de Negros Cimarrones. [Regarding the fortified towns of the rebelling blacks.] Group of 41 official manuscript reports regarding an uprising by "negros cimarrones" ("untamed blacks") who had escaped into the countryside of Matanzas Province. 41 leaves, small folio. Matanzas, Cuba, December 1837-March 1838
Series of reports made to the provincial governor by Captain Antonio Garcia Gral and his subordinates. These reports provide an extraordinary account of a number of "negros cimarrones" ("maroons" in English) who had revolted and escaped into the forests of Ceira de Mocha in western Cuba.
