Buch, Englisch, 403 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 735 g
Reihe: Afro-Latin America
Buch, Englisch, 403 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 735 g
Reihe: Afro-Latin America
ISBN: 978-1-009-49419-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
From Colonial Cuba to Madrid examines the largest and most complex freedom suit litigated in the highest court of the Spanish empire at the end of the eighteenth century. Filed by hundreds of re-enslaved Afro descendant people who had lived in quasi-freedom in eastern Cuba for more than a century, this action drew on local customary practices and broader cultural, political, and legal discourses rooted in the Spanish Atlantic world to put forward novel claims to collective freedom and native based rights at a time when questions of slavery, freedom, and citizenship were igniting in many parts of the Atlantic world. Intersecting law, society studies, and the history of slavery, María Elena Díaz offers a carefully researched study of one of the few communities of Afro descendants that managed to secure freedom and political and legal recognition from the Spanish crown during the colonial period.
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Introduction; 1. Imperial reform, privatization, and enslavement; 2. An unorthodox pueblo and its apoderados; 3. Making the case for collective freedom; 4. Native bonds, native rights; 5. The council's ruling and the politics of litigation; 6. A 'pernicious' communication; 7. Violence, marronage, and litigation; 8. The final outcome of the case; 9. The nineteenth-century afterlife of the freedom edict of 1800; Conclusion; References; Index.
