Peligros, controles y silencios atlánticos: censura y esclavitud en Cuba

In this article I analyze the censorship practices and their effects related to the expression, circulation, dissemination and reception of ideas and writings focusing on slavery between 1834 and 1845. This article focuses on the maneuvers of Atlantic antislavery networks whose propaganda turned slavery in a very subversive issue in Cuba. Secondly, it aims to shed light on the framework of censorship which, while not openly pointing to the subject of slavery, left little space of expression to Creole liberals opposing the slave trade. Finally, in considering the existence of an information network between Cuban and Spanish liberals, this paper echoes the feeling of suspicion and fear that can be detected in their correspondence and observes how the conjunction of colonial control and slave interests favored the advent of a self-censorship phenomenon.