Freedom''s Captives - Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific

Freedom's Captives offers a compelling, narrative-driven history of the gradual abolition of slavery in the majority-black Colombian Pacific.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: 'Reborn for freedom'; Part I. The Social Universe of the Colombian Black Pacific: 1. Black freedom and the aquatic lowlands; 2. Slavery and the urban Pacific frontier; Part II. The Time of Gradual Emancipation Rule: 3. The gradual emancipation law of 1821 and abolitionist publics in Colombia; 4. The children of the Free Womb and technologies of gradual emancipation rule; 5. Routes to freedom, gradients of unfreedom: testamentary manumission, self-purchase, and public manumissions; Part III. Final Abolition and the Afterlife of Gradual Emancipation: 6. Final abolition and the problem of black autonomy; Epilogue: 'The precious gift of freedom'.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Yesenia Barragan is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is the author of Selling Our Death Masks: Cash-for-Gold in the Age of Austerity (2014) and Principal Investigator of the bilingual digital database The Free Womb Project.

Zusammenfassung

A compelling, narrative-driven history of the gradual abolition of slavery in the majority-black Colombian Pacific. Yesenia Barragan rethinks the nineteenth-century project of emancipation by exploring competing struggles over disparate modes of freedom, unfreedom, and bondage in Colombia during the age of gradual emancipation.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Yesenia Barragan, Yesenia (Rutgers University Barragan, Barragan Yesenia
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781108832328
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83232-8
• Seiten: 257
• Serie: Afro-Latin America
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Colombia, HISTORY / Latin America / General, Australasian & Pacific history, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Australasian and Pacific history, Slavery and abolition of slavery