Description: Cuban Tobacco in the Age of Second Slavery directly refutes the myth of tobacco as a small-scale, family, and free-labor crop promoted by scholarship. It also rejects the prevailing use of sugar as the model for epitomizing Cuban slavery--a paradigm that obscures the full measure of diversity in this region and era.
Brief description: WILLIAM A. MORGAN is a professor of history at Lone Star College. His research has been awarded a John Brockway Huntington Foundation Fellowship, a John Carter Brown Fellowship, a Lydia Cabrera Fellowship from the Conference on Latin American History, a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society, two Mellon/ACLS Faculty Fellowships, and a Folger Research Fellowship. He is the author of A Brief History of Cuba, and his work has appeared in Slavery & Abolition, Colonial Latin American Review, Agricultural History, and The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History. Morgan lives and writes in Texas.
Review Quotes: Drawing on meticulous original research, in itself a significant contribution to a growing body of scholarship on slavery in Cuban tobacco, Morgan mounts a convincing case for rethinking tobacco as integral to our understanding of Cuba during the Age of Second Slavery.--Jean Stubbs "author of Tobacco on the Periphery: A Case Study in Cuban Labour History, 1860-1958 and Tobacco Counterpoints: Cuba and the Global Habano"