ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of rewriting the nature of colonialism and of refashioning the Cuban origins of a prominent Catalan family. The private, domestic biography becomes a principal technology for rhetorically domesticating the American story of trafficking and enslavement for its Spanish readers.
Surwillo et al. (Mon,) studied this question.