Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-279) and index.

The attack on El Portillo ; The captured runaways ; A settling of accounts ; Decades of economic development -- Active resistance in the eastern region, 1790-1820 ; Runaway slave settlements east of Santiago de Cuba ; Runaway slave settlements in the northern mountain ranges -- Eastern palenques in the period of slave plantation expansion ; Runaway slave settlements in the Mayar�i Mountains ; Tightening of the eastern repressive system ; Consolidation of resistance and repression -- Expansion and decline ; Last large-scale attack on the eastern palenques ; Last of the runaways living in settlements -- Runaway slave settlements as a system of resistance ; Specific characteristics of the eastern settlements ; Forms of settlement ; Types of dwellings in runaway slave settlements ; Adaptability of the repressive system.

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