Visions of an Ancient Ethiopian Church and the Africanization of Catholic History in José Antonio Aponte's Afro-Cuban Codex.
In 1812, the trial of the insurgents involved in an antislavery rebellion in Cuba centred on a book of images found in the home of its author and alleged leader, José Antonio Aponte. As a unique and now lost Afro-Cuban codex, the archival descriptions of its plates provide an inexhaustible source fo...
| Publicado en: | Slavery & Abolition Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 149 - 172 |
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