"Ever Faithful is an important book. Rather than add to the copious scholarship explaining how Cubans came to reject colonial rule, David Sartorius asks why so many remained loyal to Spain. Exploring how loyalty worked in practice, he focuses on people of color, whose allegiances were watched closely by both imperial and nationalist leaders. He offers an original and convincing thesis: that the history of loyalty explains as much or more about Cuban racial politics than does the history of revolution and independence."-Vincent Brown, author of The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
"David Sartorius illuminates and complicates Cuban history from 1808 to 1898, focusing on loyalty to Spain to understand enduring colonial rule, the expansion and end of slavery, and a late and limited independence. Diverse Cubans negotiated Spanish citizenship. In a complex racial politics, opposition to empire and to slavery often diverged-prolonging both. Ever Faithful begins an essential rethinking of empire and citizenship, race and resistance in Cuba-with powerful implications for Brazil and the U.S."-John Tutino, author of Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America
Challenging assumptions that loyalty to the Spanish empire was the exclusive province of the white Cuban elite, this groundbreaking history brings attention to free and enslaved people of African descent who actively supported colonialism.
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