On this day, 5 November 1843 an enslaved woman called Carlota led a slave uprising in Matanzas, Cuba. Brandishing machetes, Carlota and her co-conspirators summoned other slaves with a kettle drum, then killed the cane plantation slave owners before heading to neighbouring plantations and farms to free other slaves. The rebellion lasted until the following year, when authorities succeeded in violently repressing it. Carlota herself was tied to 4 horses and torn apart. The abolition of slavery in Cuba was eventually achieved in 1886. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1255834527935028/?type=3
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