{"id":867,"date":"2014-07-10T04:09:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T04:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=867"},"modified":"2014-07-11T17:03:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T17:03:46","slug":"13-volantes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=867","title":{"rendered":"Volantes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Volantes,<\/em> or\u00a0<i>quitrins,<\/i>\u00a0were driven by non-slave Afro-Cubans and, as noted by visitor, Maturin Ballou, \u201cStrange as it may seem, it [the carriage] is very light upon the horse, which is also bestridden by the postilion, or <em>calisero<\/em>.\u201d Clifford L. Staten, <em>The History of Cuba<\/em>, ( Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2003) 25; Maturin Murray Ballou, <em>History of Cuba; or Notes of a traveler in the tropics<\/em>, (Boston: Phillips, Sampson &amp; Company, 1854) 131-132.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_940\" style=\"width: 891px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Volante-crop.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-940\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-940 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Volante-crop.jpg\" alt=\"Volante crop\" width=\"881\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Volante-crop.jpg 881w, http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Volante-crop-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 881px) 100vw, 881px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-940\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federico Mialhe, Album Pinteresco de la Isla de Cuba, Plate 12, copy in Special Collections, University of Virginia.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volantes, or\u00a0quitrins,\u00a0were driven by non-slave Afro-Cubans and, as noted by visitor, Maturin Ballou, \u201cStrange as it may seem, it [the carriage] is very light upon the horse, which is also bestridden by the postilion, or calisero.\u201d Clifford L. Staten, The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=867\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":800,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4M6TH-dZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/867"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/867\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}