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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Barragan Yesenia, Yesenia (Rutgers University Barragan, Yesenia Barragan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.05.2021
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9781108832328
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83232-8
• Pages: 257
• Series: Afro-Latin America
• Subjects: 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