Paying the Price of Freedom - Family and Labor Among Lima''s Slaves, 18001854

Informationen zum Autor Christine Hünefeldt is Professor of History! University of California! San Diego. Klappentext "A splendid and important contribution to a growing body of literature on nineteenth-century slavery and abolition."—Frederick P. Bowser! Stanford University   "I know of no other work on Latin American slavery during the decades before emancipation that captures the slaves' relentless pursuit of freedom as poignantly as does this one."—Francisco A. Scarano! University of Wisconsin! Madison Zusammenfassung Christine Hünefeldt documents in impressive! moving detail the striving and ingenuity! the hard-won triumphs and bitter defeats of slaves who sought liberation in nineteenth-century urban Peru. Drawing on judicial! ecclesiastical! and notarial records—including the testimony of the slaves themselves—she uncovers the various strategies slaves invented to gain their freedom.   Hünefeldt pays particular attention to marriage relations and family life. Slaves used their family solidarity as a strategy! while slaveowners used the conflicts within families to prevent manumission. The author's focus on gender relations between slaveowners and slaves! as well as between slaves! is particularly original. Her eye for ethnographic detail and her perceptive reading of the documentary evidence make this book a rich and important contribution to the study of slavery in Latin America.   This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program! which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice! reach! and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893! Voices Revived makes high-quality! peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Product details

• Authors: Christine Hunefeldt, Christine Hünefeldt
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9780520302341
• ISBN: 978-0-520-30234-1
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Peru, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Latin America, HISTORY / Latin America / General, c 1800 to c 1900, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, Slavery and abolition of slavery