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=Article Evaluation=

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= Year of the Lash =

Article Evaluation

 * Only one source cited (Paquette)
 * Vague allusions to "historians'" arguments
 * Does not include all of the main arguments within the field

Lead
=== In 1844, a series of slave revolts formally known as La Escalera (the Ladder Conspiracy) occurred in Cuba. The Cuban government responded to these revolts with a series of highly oppressive and repressive tactics against free and enslaved Black Cubans and free people of color which are now known as the Year of the Lash. ===

Stifling of prominent Black Cubans and people of color

 * Plácido (executed)
 * Poet
 * Juan Francisco Manzano
 * First slave narrative

Historical Debates

 * Finch
 * Paquette
 * Reid-Vasquez
 * Michele Reid-Vasquez, a professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburg, approaches the debate surrounding the Ladder Conspiracy from a different angle. Reid-Vasquez turns the dominant debate over the existence of a mass slave conspiracy on its head, arguing that whether the Ladder Conspiracy was a real or contrived event is of little importance. Instead, Reid-Vasquez asserts that the impact that the state-sanctioned violence and the acts of resistance in which Black Cubans and people of color engaged should be the sites of historical investigation and debate