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The Havana Slave Trade Conspiracy of 1844: La Escalera
In 1844, Cuba's sugar boom collided with a brutal wave of state terror. The Escalera conspiracy, named for the ladder used in torture, saw hundreds of free and enslaved Black Cubans executed or imprisoned on suspicion of plotting a massive uprising. Lucas and Luna explore the tensions behind the plot: the British-backed abolitionist network led by David Turnbull, the fears of Cuba's planter elite, and the role of the poet and leader Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés, known as Plácido, who was executed despite little evidence. They examine how the repression targeted not just rebels…
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