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.

List of contents

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'.

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: Yesenia Barragan, Yesenia (Rutgers University Barragan, Barragan Yesenia
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2022
• EAN: 9781108941051
• ISBN: 978-1-108-94105-1
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Afro-Latin America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 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