Castigo a la osadía: la revolución que no fue de Santiago de Cuba en 1836

The failed 1836 uprising in Santiago de Cuba and the punishment of Candelario Villafaña.

The talk examined a military proclamation in favour of the Constitution that became a wider demand for political rights and civil liberties. It focused on the case of Candelario Villafaña, a free mixed-race man punished for challenging the established order. Yaimara Izaguirre researches nineteenth-century Cuba at the University of Havana; Jesús Sanjurjo researches Atlantic history at the University of Strathclyde.