Abstract
Slavery, Postemancipation and Gender in Cuba. An Overview This article gives an overview on gender aspects of the slavery politics of the Spanish colonial state and of the Cuban masters in the period of the so called “Second Slavery” (Dale Tomich) – the capitalist Massensklaverei of the 19th century. In a second step the paper tries to differentiate the genderpolitics of the two opposite sides in the anticolonial wars of 1868–1898 and their strategies towards abolition. Finally, in a microhistorical approach the article follows the trails of individual exslaves after the abolition of slavery in Cuba (1886), like Esteban Montejo, the famous cimarrón, and analyses their gendered responses to the more and more racialized politics and the machismo of the postemancipation era.