Reena Goldthree interviews Aisha Finch at AAIHS: Reena Goldthree: Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba situates the conspiracy of La Escalera in the context of mounting black resistance in 19th-century Cuba. In the book, you invite us to consider the “wide span of non-complaint behaviors” that enabled slave insurgencies, including the “hidden labor of rebellion” that … Continue reading Finch Interviewed by Goldthree on Gender, Slavery, and the Archive in Cuba | @AAIHS
Aisha K. Finch
AWARD: Finch Wins the 2016 Harriet Tubman Prize
#ADPhD congratulates Aisha K. Finch on receiving the inaugural Harriet Tubman Book Prize from the The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery: “The esteemed jury described Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba as ‘a nuanced, deeply researched, and precisely rendered’ examination of the underground rebel movement in western Cuba. They added, ‘With a … Continue reading AWARD: Finch Wins the 2016 Harriet Tubman Prize
Douglass Prize Finalists Announced! Finch, Forret, & Hopper
Congratulations Aisha K. Finch, Jeff Forret, and Matthew S. Hopper!! New Haven, Conn. (August 24, 2016) — Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the finalists for the 18th annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most coveted awards for the study of the African … Continue reading Douglass Prize Finalists Announced! Finch, Forret, & Hopper
BOOK: Finch on La Escalera Rebellion and Enslaved Resistance in Cuba
Aisha K. Finch, Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844. University of North Carolina Press, 2015. via UNC Press: "Envisioning La Escalera--an underground rebel movement largely composed of Africans living on farms and plantations in rural western Cuba--in the larger context of the long emancipation struggle in Cuba, Aisha Finch … Continue reading BOOK: Finch on La Escalera Rebellion and Enslaved Resistance in Cuba
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