Wage-earning slaves : coartación in nineteenth-century Cuba /

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Author / Creator:	Varella, Claudia, author.
Imprint:	Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2020]
Description:	xvi, 217 pages : illustration, map ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Slaves -- Emancipation -- Cuba. Slaves -- Emancipation. Cuba -- History -- 19th century. Cuba. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12409519

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Other authors / contributors:	Barcia Paz, Manuel, 1972- author.
ISBN:	9781683401650 1683401654 9781683401926
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This volume is the first systematic study of coartación, a process by which slaves worked toward purchasing their freedom in installments. Focusing on Cuba, this book reveals that instead of providing a "path to manumission," the process was often rife with obstacles that blocked slaves from achieving liberty"--
Other form:	Online version: Varella, Claudia. Wage-earning slaves Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2020 9781683401926

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