Print version: Aching, Gerard. Freedom from liberation : slavery, sentiment, and literature in Cuba. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015] Blacks in the diaspora ISBN 9780253016935
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- liberalisms at odds: slavery and the struggle for an autochthonous literature -- In spite of himself: unconscious resistance and melancholy attachments in Manzano’s autobiography -- Being adequate to the task: an abolitionist translates the desire to be free -- Freedom without equality: slave protagonists, free blacks, and their bodies -- Epilogue.