Yesenia Barragan

Freedom's Captives

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 713g
• ISBN-13: 9781108832328
• ISBN-10: 1108832326
• Artikelnr.: 60687343

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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'.