Michele Reid-Vazquez. The Year of the Lash: Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
powerfully because of where Araujo has situated it: among slaves and their descendants. A third volume might consist of the discrete historical analysis that could be had in the examination of the three families considered in chapters six and seven. A deeper contextualization that is both specific and global, coupled with more rigorous analysis of the families De Souza, Vierya, and Da Silva, could provide insights into the construction of the Atlantic World and its complex reciprocities that would further our understanding of the roles of Africans in their creation.