Cover -- Indigenous Passages to Cuba, 1515-1900 -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Imperial Geopolitics, the Florida-Cuba Nexus, and Amerindian Passages -- 2. The "Evil Designs" of "Frequent Intercourse": Havana, Empire, and Indigenous Geopolitics -- 3. "Barbarous Nations": Apaches, "Mecos," and Other "Indios Bárbaros" in Colonial Cuba -- 4. Mayas and the Mesoamerican Presence in Cuba -- 5. Yucatec Mayas, Transnational Resistance, and the Quotidian Struggles of Indentured Labor in Cuba, 1848-1864 -- 6. Blood Contract: Continuity, Change, and Persistence in Colonial Indigenous Labor Forms and Elite Strategies -- Conclusion: Diaspora and the Enduring (and Diverse) Indigenous Presence in Cuba -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Indigenous peoples-Cuba-History. Immigrants-Cuba-History. Cubans-Migrations-History. Cuba-Emigration and immigration-History. North America-Emigration and immigration-History. Cuba-Colonization-History.