Sebastián Kindelán y O'Regan: Difference between revisions

Kindelán assumed the governorship of [[Santiago de Cuba]] and all the eastern territory of Cuba<ref name="Repilado2007"/> on March 28, 1799 during a politically sensitive<ref name="Garraway2008">{{cite book|author=Doris Lorraine Garraway|title=Tree Of Liberty: Cultural Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=VaTj2MEnMfgC&pg=PA40|accessdate=18 July 2013|year=2008|publisher=University of Virginia Press|isbn=978-0-8139-2686-5|page=40|quote=Testimonio de los autos obrados sobre la arribada que han hecho a este Pro. de Santiago de Cuba 5 Goletas y una balandra francesas...con varias familias de la misma nación pidiendo hospitalidad}}</ref><ref name="García2008">{{cite web|title=Tan lejos de La Habana y tan cerca de Saint-Domingue: Santiago de Cuba durante la crisis de 1808|url=http://www.ahistcon.org/docs/murcia/contenido/pdf/01/juan_andreo_y_lucia_provencio_taller01.pdf|work=Recoge los contenidos presentados a: Asociación de Historia Contemporánea. Congreso|publisher=Universidad de Murcia|accessdate=19 July 2013|author=Juan Andreo García|author2=Lucía Provencio Garrigós |page=5|date=September 2008}}</ref> period of the island's history.<ref name="Corzo2003">{{cite book|author=Gabino La Rosa Corzo|title=Runaway Slave Settlements in Cuba: Resistance and Repression|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=8igWWyzLU2kC&pg=PA86|accessdate=19 July 2013|year=2003|publisher=UNC Press Books|isbn=978-0-8078-5479-2|pages=86–87}}</ref> In a missive dated February 19, 1804, some of its influential citizens reported to the Spanish Crown the dangerous situation of the island, asserting that Governor Kindelán had encouraged white refugees from the uprisings in [[Saint-Domingue]] to settle in Cuba after the French withdrew from the western portion of [[Hispaniola]]. They complained that some twenty thousand<ref name="Derfler1991">{{cite book|author=Leslie Derfler|title=Paul Lafargue and the Founding of French Marxism: 1842 - 1882|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=L_E_OR6owEEC&pg=PA12|accessdate=20 July 2013|date=1 January 1991|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-65903-2|pages=12–13}}</ref> or more French immigrants had already acquired land in Cuba,<ref>{{cite web|title=La plantación cafetalera del siglo XIX en Santiago de Cuba como modelo de asentamiento rural sustentable|url=http://www.santiago.cu/cienciapc/n/numeros/2002/2/articulo01.html|work=Santiago.cu|publisher=Universidad de Oriente|accessdate=19 July 2013|author=Lourdes M. Rizo Aguilera}}</ref> and were importing black slaves to work their plantations.<ref name=Lux1972>{{cite journal|last=Lux|first=William R.|title=French Colonization in Cuba, 1791-1809|url=http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cuba/French-in-Cuba.pdf|journal=The Americas|date=1 July 1972|volume=29|issue=1|doi=10.2307/980536|issn=00031615|page=58}}</ref> The letter accused the governor of irreligion and dishonesty, and condemned him for having licentious habits and setting a bad example for the people. Kindelán rebutted the denunciations vigorously, and defended the French settlers, saying they were peaceful, and had no intention of inciting a revolution such as had occurred in Santo Domingo (Saint-Domingue).<ref name=Manual1948>{{cite book|last=Palau|first=Antonio|title=Manual del librero hispano-americano: inventario bibliográfico de la producción científica y literaria de España y de la América latina desde la invención de la imprenta hasta nuestros dias, con el valor comercial de todos los artículos descritos|year=1948|publisher=Libreria anticuaria|location=Barcelona|edition=2}}</ref>