Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race Beyond Cuba's Plantations

ISBN-13: 9781108499545 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str.

Atlanta) Chira Adriana (Emory University

Opis

A rich, pathbreaking study on nineteenth-century rural Cuba, and how Afro-descendant peasants forged freedom through litigation and land occupation.

Recenzje

'… a refreshing contribution to the historiography of the African Diaspora in Latin America offering both genuinely new data and new interpretations.' Alex Borucki, ReVista: The Harvard Review of Latin America

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Unenclosed people, unenclosed lands: Santiago de Cuba to 1800; 2. Foreign implants: The Saint-Domingue refugees and the limits of plantation development, 1791–1808; 3. Keeping people put: Enslaved families, policing, and the re-emergence of coffee planting, 1810s–1830s; 4. Manumission's legalities: From need-based prerogatives to merit-based entitlements; 5. 'A freedom with further bonds': Free people of African descent, property ownership, and color status; 6. 'Para levantar los negros y proclamar la República': The beginnings of the Cuban wars of independence in Santiago de Cuba; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography.