| Series |
Afro-Latin America
Afro-Latin America.
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| Contents |
Unenclosed people, unenclosed lands: Santiago de Cuba to 1800 -- Foreign implants: the Saint-Domingue refugees and the limits of plantation development, 1791-1808 -- Keeping people put: enslaved families, policing, and the reemergence of coffee planting, 1810s-1830s -- Manumission's legalities: from need-based prerogatives to merit-based entitlements -- "A freedom with further bonds": free people of African descent, property ownership, and color status -- "Para levantar los negros y proclamar la República": the beginnings of the Cuban wars of independence in Santiago de Cuba. |
| Abstract |
"Throughout the nineteenth century, aided by railroads and steam technologies, industrial plantations expanded their footprint into ever new territories across Latin America. The timing was unique: it occurred right as enslavement, the foundation of these enterprises, was being subjected to unprecedented challenges-- from proliferating slave insurgencies to vocal liberal-abolitionist mobilization. But along industrial plantations' margins, vast and socially vibrant free rural communities of African descent made homes for themselves against many odds. Unearthing their worlds sheds light on a distinct history of emancipation that did not fully align with liberalism's trajectory"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-300) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Chira, Adriana, 1983- Patchwork freedoms 1. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 9781108583596 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021041845 |
| ISBN | 9781108499545 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1108499546 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781108730808 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1108730809 (paperback) |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
