Unraveling Abolition: Legal Culture and Slave Emancipation in Colombia

ISBN-13: 9781108831529 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str.

Edgardo (University of Southern California) Perez Morales

Opis

A study of the legal origins of antislavery, and how Colombian slaves transformed ideas on slavery, freedom and political belonging.

Recenzje

'This book rightly centers the agency of Afro-Colombians for understanding the legal history of slavery and for promoting new ideas of human freedom. Pérez Morales uncovers a rich tradition of enslaved people appropriating the law, and even inventing new legal claims, to push for emancipation, both under Spanish colonialism and in the new independent Colombian republic. A major contribution.' James E. Sanders

Spis treści

List of figures; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Prologue: antislavery, abolition, and the judicial forum; 1. Raynal in the new kingdom?; 2. Landscapes of slavery, rumors of freedom; 3. Popayán: prudent legislation; 4. Cartagena: equality and natural law; 5. Antioquia: free womb, captive slaves; 6. An exegesis of liberty; Epilogue: the slaves before the law; Notes; Index.