David Sartorious

David Sartorius is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland and the author of Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba (Duke University Press in 2013). and examines the racial politics of colonial rule, including the support of Cubans of African descent, slave and free, for the Spanish government. He is also the author of essays about falsified passports, free-colored militias, race and historical memory, slave provision grounds, the 1812 Spanish Constitution, and the place of Darwinism and anthropology in nineteenth-century Cuba. His current research considers the use of passports to and from Cuba during the nineteenth century as a window into questions of race, mobility, materiality, and transnational history.