Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

An analysis of marriage patterns in nineteenth-century Cuba, a society with a large black population the majority of which was held in slavery but which also included considerable numbers of freedmen. Dr Martinez-Alier uses as her main source of evidence the records in Havana of administrative and judicial proceedings of cases in which parents opposed a marriage, of cases involving elopement, and of cases of interracial marriage.Martinez-Alier, Verena is the author of 'Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba', published 1974 under ISBN 9780521098465 and ISBN 0521098467.